Classical

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Classical may refer to:

European antiquity

• Classical antiquity, a period of history from roughly the 7th or 8th century B.C.E. to the 5th century C.E. centered on the Mediterranean Sea
• Classical architecture, architecture derived from Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity
• Classical mythology, the body of myths from the ancient Greeks and Romans
• Classical tradition, the reception of classical Greco-Roman antiquity by later cultures
• Classics, study of the language and culture of classical antiquity, particularly its literature
• Classicism, a high regard for classical antiquity in the arts

Music and arts

• Classical ballet, the most formal of the ballet styles
• Classical music, a variety of Western musical styles from the 9th century to the present
• Classical guitar, a common type of acoustic guitar
• Classical Hollywood cinema, a visual and sound style in the American film industry between 1927 and 1963
• Classical Indian dance, various codified art forms whose theory can be traced back to 400 BC
• Classical period (music), a period of increased interest in classicism from 1750 to 1825
• Classical unities, rules for drama derived from a passage in Aristotle's Poetics

Language

• Classical language, any language with a literature that is considered classical
  • Classical Arabic, the Arabic language in which the Qur'an is written
  • Classical Armenian, the oldest attested form of the Armenian language
  • Classical Chinese, the language of the classic literature from the end of the Spring and Autumn period
  • Classical French, the French language as systematised in the 17th and 18th centuries
  • Classical Latin, the Latin language used by the ancient Romans
  • Classical Nahuatl, the language spoken by Aztec nobles in the Valley of Mexico at the time of the 16th-century Spanish conquest

Science and mathematics

• Classical economics, school of economics developed in the late 18th and early 19th century
• Classical logic, a class of formal logics that have been most intensively studied and most widely used
• Classical mathematics, mathematics constructed and proved on the basis of classical logic and set theory
• Classical mechanics, the set of physical laws describing the motion of bodies under the action of a system of forces
• Classical physics, the study of physics before the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics

Other uses

• Classical liberalism, a political philosophy and ideology belonging to liberalism
• Classical conditioning, a kind of learning that occurs when a conditioned stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus

See also

• Classic, an outstanding example of a particular style, something of lasting worth or with a timeless quality
• List of classical music styles, styles of music considered classical
• Classic (disambiguation)
• Classics (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing "Classical"