Classical period can refer to the following:
- Classical Greece, specifically of the 5th and 4th centuries BC
- Classical antiquity, in the Greco-Roman world
- Classical period (music), in music
- Classic stage, of American archaeology
Famous quotes containing the words classical and/or period:
“Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)