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n. The form of Ancient Greek language used during the classical period of Greek literature: approximately 600 to 300 BC. The language of the poets and philosophers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeschylus, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophocles, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euripides, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristophanes, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle, etc.
Usage examples of "classical greek".
To be sure, Shakespeare knew Diana as the virgin goddess of the moon and the hunt (see page I-14), as she was in classical Greek mythology.
Imagine the simplicity and monumental grace of classical Greek sculpture superimposed on a luxuriant eastern carpet.
Belial peered at them closely and saw that they had the classical Greek lookbig men with straight noses and curly brown hair.
Once again, even as Ficino had believed that Plato could have been Christ's most loving disciple, it was Michelangelo's desire to blend the classical Greek concept of the beauty of the human body with the Christian ideal of the immortality of the human soul.
There is no evidence for large-scale cultivation of apples even in the Fertile Crescent and in Europe until classical Greek times, 8,000 years after the rise of Eurasian food production began.
Joe recognized Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Mongol and Polynesian dress, also classical Greek and Roman, medieval and Renaissance.
Hagbard had removed all Christian decorations and redesigned it in classical Greek with a traditional magic pentagram on the floor.
In less than a minute he reached a professor of classical Greek writings at the University of Florence.
We were drawn together because of our interest in pre-classical Greek culture.