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Broadly the period from the Persian Wars through to the unification of Greece under Philip II and the world empire of Alexander the Great (i.e. the 5th and 4th centuries bc).
classical period
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- Partimento (music)
- postclassical
- Louis XIV, Louis Quatorze style
- Carl Stamitz (Classical Artist)
- Racine, Jean Baptiste (French playwright)
- propylon (in archaeology)
- askos (in archaeology)
- Formiae
- Praxiteles (art)
- Collegium Aureum (music)
- Hellenic
- London Classical Players (music)
- F (in linguistics)
- thin orange ware (in archaeology)
