Classics is 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 Classical Antiquity (Bronze Age ca. BC 3000 – Dark Ages ca. AD 500). Initially, study of the Classics (the period’s literature) was the principal study in the humanities. Traditionally, the Classics studied the Mediterranean civi...
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Classics
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- Arethusa
- Journal of Early Christian Studies
- Journal of the History of Philosophy
- Transactions of the American Philological Association
- American Journal of Philology
- Classical Philology
- Studia Humaniora Tartuensia
- Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica
- Patma-Banasirakan Handes
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