Definition of post-classical in English:
post-classical
adjective pəʊs(t)ˈklasɪk(ə)l
Relating to or denoting a time after the classical period of any language, art, or culture, in particular in ancient Greek and Latin culture.
Example sentencesExamples
- The standard Latin dictionary (Lewis and Short) in fact points out that the word Graecitas does not occur until the post-classical period.
- Under an Hour is a three-piece post-classical mirage of repetition and withdrawal.
- Ehlers may alienate those uninterested in being taken on a tour through dissonant post-classical territories, preferring instead a stay in pleasanter climes.
- Thus the use of the Troy myth by post-classical writers should not be compared to Virgil's use of the myth, even though Virgil's use of ancient Roman myth is the chief source of the cultural-genealogical practice.
- A particularly common theme in post-classical art is ‘The Toilet of Venus’, showing her with Eros, her son by the war-god Ares, holding up a mirror in which she can admire her own beauty.
- Yet this view leaves open the historical determinations of intention and form (choice and chance if you prefer) which underpin the framework of reading at any post-classical moment.
- It contains thirty-two poems, of which twenty-six are in hexameters, the standard metre for post-classical Greek encomiastic poetry.
- The object has onyx handles with cylindrical finger grips echoing post-classical pre-Columbian motifs.
- Alberti mentions only one post-classical work of art - Giotto's Navicella mosaic - but he cites many classical literary sources describing vanished works.
- Fuchs is a representative of both Berlin's classical and its post-classical era.
- The school where he taught before being raised to the bishopric of St Davids, seems to have boasted a considerable library of Latin classical and post-classical authors.
- Among British post-classical economists, the argument was often that the Irish over-breed, while Anglo-Saxons reproduce at relatively low rates.