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Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world,classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages,Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics also includes Greco-Roman philosophy,history,archaeology,anthropology,art,mythology and society as secondary subjects.
Classicism,in the arts,refers generally to a high regard for a classical period,classical antiquity in the Western tradition,as setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate. In its purest form,classicism is an aesthetic attitude dependent on principles based in the culture,art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome,with the emphasis on form,simplicity,proportion,clarity of structure,perfection and restrained emotion,as well as explicit appeal to the intellect. The art of classicism typically seeks to be formal and restrained:of the Discobolus Sir Kenneth Clark observed,"if we object to his restraint and compression we are simply objecting to the classicism of classic art. A violent emphasis or a sudden acceleration of rhythmic movement would have destroyed those qualities of balance and completeness through which it retained until the present century its position of authority in the restricted repertoire of visual images." Classicism,as Clark noted,implies a canon of widely accepted ideal forms,whether in the Western canon that he was examining in The Nude (1956).
Classical may refer to:
Glen Warren Bowersock is a historian of ancient Greece,Rome and the Near East,and former chairman of Harvard’s classics department.
Larissa Bonfante was an Italian-American classicist,Professor of Classics emerita at New York University and an authority on Etruscan language and culture.
Edith Hall,is a British scholar of classics,specialising in ancient Greek literature and cultural history,and professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. She is a Fellow of the British Academy. From 2006 until 2011 she held a chair at Royal Holloway,University of London,where she founded and directed the Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome until November 2011. She resigned over a dispute regarding funding for classics after leading a public campaign,which was successful,to prevent cuts to or the closure of the Royal Holloway Classics department. Until 2022,she was a professor at the Department of Classics at King's College London. She also co-founded and is Consultant Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at Oxford University,Chair of the Gilbert Murray Trust,and Judge on the Stephen Spender Prize for poetry translation. Her prizewinning doctoral thesis was awarded at Oxford. In 2012 she was awarded a Humboldt Research Prize to study ancient Greek theatre in the Black Sea,and in 2014 she was elected to the Academy of Europe. She lives in Cambridgeshire.
Dorothy Tarrant (1885–1973) was a British classical scholar,specialising in Plato. She was the first female Professor of Greek in the United Kingdom,teaching at Bedford College,London from 1909 to 1950. She researched the work of Plato,pioneering the use of stylistic analysis to conclude that he had not written all the work previously attributed to him. She was active in the Classical Association and became its first woman president in 1958. She was also an active Unitarian and campaigned especially against alcohol,becoming the president of the Unitarian Temperance Association,the Unitarian Assembly and the Unitarian College.
Judith P. Hallett is Professor and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Emerita of Classics,having formerly been the Graduate Director at the Department of Classics,University of Maryland. Her research focuses on women,the family,and sexuality in ancient Greece and Rome,particularly in Latin literature. She is also an expert on classical education and reception in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Barbara Elizabeth Goff is a Classics Professor at the University of Reading. She specialises in Greek tragedy and its reception;women in antiquity;postcolonial classics and reception of Greek political thought.
Simon Charles Robert Swain,FBA,is a classicist and academic. Since 2000,he has been Professor of Classics at the University of Warwick,where he has also been Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Arts and Social Sciences since 2014.
Fiona McHardy is a Professor of Classics and also the Head of History and Classics in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Roehampton. In 2003 she started work at Roehampton where she was responsible for building up the BA Classical Civilisation. Her research interests include ancient and modern Greek literature,folk poetry,anthropology and culture. She teaches modules on ancient Greek language,literature and culture.
Sarah Emily Bond is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Iowa. Her research focuses on late Roman history,epigraphy,law,topography,GIS,and digital humanities.
Olakunbi Ojuolape Olasope is a Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. She is an expert on Roman social history,Greek and Roman theatre,and Yoruba classical performance culture. Olasope is known in particular for her work on the reception of classical drama in West Africa,especially the work of the Nigerian dramatist Femi Osofisan.
Ruby Blondell is Professor Emerita of Classics and Adjunct Professor Emerita of Gender,Women,&Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington;prior to retirement,they were the Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor of Humanities also at the University of Washington. Their research centres on Greek intellectual history,gender studies,and the reception of ancient myth in contemporary culture.
Sinclair Wynn Bell is an American classical archaeologist and art historian. He is a Professor of Art History at Northern Illinois University where he teaches courses in Greek,Etruscan,and Roman art history,architecture,and archaeology,as well as museum studies. His research focuses on the art and archaeology of the Etruscans;sport and spectacle in the Roman imperial period,especially the Roman circus;and slavery in ancient Rome,especially the visual representation of slaves,freedmen,and foreigners in Roman art.
Ann Marie Yasin is an Associate Professor of Art History and Classics at the University of Southern California specializing in the architecture and material culture of the Roman and late antique world. She studies materiality,built-environments,landscapes,and urbanism as they pertain to the ancient and late ancient religious worlds.
Seneca the Younger's Letter 47 of his Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium,sometimes known as On Master and Slave or On Slavery,is an essayistic look at dehumanization in the context of slavery in ancient Rome. It was a criticism of aspects of Roman slavery,without outright opposition to it,and had a favorable later reception by Enlightenment philosophers and subsequently the 19th century abolitionist movement. Conversely,the text has also been seen as a proslavery apologia,as well as in the light of the Stoic philosophical idea that "all men are slaves".
Emily Hauser is a British scholar of classics and a historical fiction novelist. She is a lecturer in classics and ancient history at the University of Exeter and has published three novels in her 'Golden Apple' trilogy:For the Most Beautiful (2016),For the Winner (2017) and For the Immortal (2018).
Monica Cyrino is a professor of classics at the University of New Mexico. She is an expert in Classical reception studies,described as a "leading academic" in the field. Her work focuses particularly on modern film and TV,and she has also served as a historical consultant for multiple modern productions.
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