Prepared to Dr Augusta Rosario Villamater Prepared by Angelique L Guce Classics sometimes encompassing Classical Studies or Classical Civilization is the branch of the humanities comprising the languages literature philosophy history art archaeology and other culture of the anci ID: 606167
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CLASSICS
Prepared to: Dr. Augusta Rosario
Villamater
Prepared by: Angelique L.
Guce
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Classics (sometimes encompassing Classical Studies or Classical Civilization) is the branch of the humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean world (Bronze Age ca. BC 3000
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Late
Antiquity
AD 300–600); especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity (ca. BC 600 – AD 600). Slide4
History of the Western Classics
The word “classics” is derived from the Latin adjective
classicus
: “belonging to the highest class of citizens”, connoting superiority, authority, and perfection.
The first “Classic” writer was
Aulus
Gellius
, a 2nd-century Roman writer who, in the miscellany
Noctes
Atticae
), refers to a writer as a
Classicus
scriptor
, non
proletarius
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Early Christian Church Fathers used canon to rank the authoritative texts of the New Testament, preserving them, given the expense of vellum and papyrus and mechanical book reproduction, thus, being comprehended in a canon ensured a book’s preservation as the best way to retain information about a civilization. Slide6
The method of study in the Classical World was “Philo’s Rule”—the law of strict continuity in preserving words and ideas.
Philo’s Rule” imparts intellectual and aesthetic appreciation of “the best, which has been thought and said in the world”. Slide7
Legacy
of the Classical
W
orld
The classical languages of the Ancient Mediterranean world influenced every European language, imparting to each a learned vocabulary of international application. Slide8
Latin grew from a highly developed cultural product of the Golden and Silver eras of Latin literature to become the international lingua franca in matters diplomatic, scientific, philosophic and religious, until the 17th century. Slide9
In
turn, the classical languages continued, Latin evolved into the Romance languages and Ancient Greek into Modern Greek and its dialects.Slide10
Sub-disciplines within the classics
One
of the most notable characteristics of the modern study of classics is the diversity of the field. Although traditionally focused on ancient Slide11
Greece
and Rome, the study now encompasses the entire ancient Mediterranean world, thus expanding their studies to Northern Africa and parts of the Middle East.