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Definition of Classics
1. Noun. Study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome.
Definition of Classics
1. Noun. (plural of classic) ¹
2. Noun. The branch of the humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean World; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during the classical era. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Classics
1. classic [n] - See also: classic
Literary usage of Classics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Literature: Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the by William Joseph Long (1909)
"These are found in various school editions, Standard English classics, Pocket
classics, ... Selections, edited by RM Lovett, in Standard English classics. ..."
2. The Mediaeval Mind: A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in by Henry Osborn Taylor (1919)
"DURING all the mediaeval centuries, men approached the classics expecting to
learn from them. The usual attitude toward the classical heritage was that of ..."
3. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1901)
"(English classics, star ser., no. 11.) D. 22- 138p. il. рог. 35с. '00. ...
Maud and other poems; with an etched photo, front. (Temple classics. ..."
4. The Classical World by Classical Association of the Atlantic States (1908)
"classics IN THE MODERN SCHOOL My subject raises two questions, one of which
depends on the other : (1) Should the classics form part of modern education ? ..."
5. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1905)
"DID THE MONKS PRESERVE THE LATIN classics? SINCE the civilized world has held
the classics in honor, the admirers of the cell and cloister have claimed that ..."
6. A History of Classical Scholarship by John Edwin Sandys (1903)
"TIlE SURVIVAL OF TIlE LATIN classics. WHILE the Greek classics owed their safe
preservation to the libraries of Constantinople and to the monasteries of the ..."
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