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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

Slide2

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

)Slide3

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

.Slide5

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.