Classic
Classic (from the Latin classicus "belonging to the first rank, exemplary") stands for different historical periods:
- Antiquity , an epoch of antiquity in the Mediterranean area, there especially:
- the fine arts and literature of the Augustan age, see Augustus
- the architecture of the Roman Empire, see Roman architecture
- the legal scholarship of the early and high Roman imperial period (approx. 30 BC – 235 AD), see Classical (jurisprudence)
- the fine arts of Classical Greece (around 490–336 BC), see Classical Times and Greek Classics (Art)
- its architecture, see Greek architecture
- its literature, see Greek literature
- a phase of Mesoamerican history, see Mesoamerica # Classic
Several art or style epochs or directions are called classic :
as general concepts:
special:
- German literature of the high Middle Ages from around 1180 to 1300
- French classics (17th century to around 1715), in French literature
- Wiener Klassik (around 1780–1827), a style of music
- Weimar Classic (around 1800), in German literature
- popular classical music , a genre of popular music
- Indian classical music (since the 16th / 17th century - North Indian Hindustan, South Indian carnatic ), see Classical Indian Music
- Classicism , art historical epoch (around 1770-1830) imitating classical antiquity
Different sciences in their formative epoch or that deal with the fundamentals of the respective research area are called classic :
- Classical antiquity , which is dedicated to antiquity, with its two sub-disciplines:
- Classical mechanics , the theories (developed by Newton and others) before the development of relativity and quantum mechanics (quantum physics)
- Classical physics , as non-quantum mechanical models
- Classic logic , unique logic systems, e.g. B. in contrast to multi-valued logics
- Classical economics , in economic theory
See also:
Wiktionary: Classical - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
