As literacy increased during this roughly 1,300 years, Greek and Roman culture shaped modern literature, philosophy, and art. While wars, Roman campaigns, and the subsequent sackings of Rome, reshaped political landscapes many times over, the biblical narratives also originating from this period make up the bulk of the entries below.
| Era Classical Antiquity (800 BCE – 476 CE) |
| Alternative Names Classical Antiquity |
| Total Entries 30 |
| Articles Timeline of classical antiquity – Wikipedia New Testament – Wikipedia |
| Description As literacy increased during this roughly 1,300 years, Greek and Roman culture shaped modern literature, philosophy, and art. While wars, Roman campaigns, and the subsequent sackings of Rome, reshaped political landscapes many times over, the biblical narratives also originating from this period make up the bulk of the entries below.
Classical antiquity, also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, is the period of cultural European history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD comprising the interwoven civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome known together as the Greco-Roman world, centered on the Mediterranean Basin. It is the period during which ancient Greece and Rome flourished and had major influence throughout much of Europe, North Africa, and West Asia. Classical antiquity was succeeded by the period now known as late antiquity. Conventionally, it is often considered to begin with the earliest recorded Epic Greek poetry of Homer (8th–7th centuries BC) and end with the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD. Such a wide span of history and territory covers many disparate cultures and periods. Classical antiquity may also refer to an idealized vision among later people of what was, in Edgar Allan Poe’s words, “the glory that was Greece, and the grandeur that was Rome”. The culture of the ancient Greeks, together with some influences from the ancient Near East, was the basis of art, philosophy, society, and education in the Mediterranean and Near East until the Roman imperial period. The Romans preserved, imitated, and spread this culture throughout Europe, until they were able to compete with it. This Greco-Roman cultural foundation has been immensely influential on the language, politics, law, educational systems, philosophy, science, warfare, literature, historiography, ethics, rhetoric, art and architecture of both the Western, and through it, the modern world. ~ Classical antiquity – Wikipedia
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