Thus, while it remains possible that the Babylonians and/or the Pythagoreans may perhaps have had the magic square of three before the Chinese did, more definite evidence will have to turn up from the Middle East or the Classical World before China can lose her claim to the earliest known magic square by more than a thousand years.

Classical civilizations, notably the Assyrians, Persians, Parthians, Indians, Koreans, Chinese, Japanese and Turks fielded large numbers of archers in their armies.

The language style of " Black-Cover Book of Common Prayer " is closer to Classical Chinese than contemporary Chinese.

Classical Chinese astronomy is recorded in the Han period and appears in the form of three schools, which are attributed to astronomers of the Zhanguo period.

This is the case for Classical Chinese and Guarani, for instance.

* Classical Chinese grammar

Van Norden, Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy.

* Relevant Electronic Resources for Chinese Classical Studies

The Tao Te Ching is written in Classical Chinese, which can be difficult to understand completely, even for well-educated native speakers of modern Chinese.

Classical Chinese relies heavily on allusion to a corpus of standard literary works to convey semantic meaning, nuance, and subtext.

Since there are no punctuation marks in Classical Chinese, it can be difficult to conclusively determine where one sentence ends and the next begins.

In the written style known as kanbun, which is the Japanese approximation of Classical Chinese, small marks called kunten are sometimes added as reading aids.

Classical Chinese painting continued on into the early modern Qing Dynasty, with highly realistic portrait paintings like seen in the late Ming Dynasty of the early 17th century.

A language like Classical Chinese instead uses unbound (" free ") morphemes, but depends on post-phrase affixes, and word order to convey meaning.

" Mozi: Language Utilitarianism: The Structure of Ethics in Classical China ," The Journal of Chinese Philosophy 16 ( 1989 ) pp. 355-380.

Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy.

Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy.

Category: Classical Chinese philosophy

Some ancient poetic traditions ; such as, contextually, Classical Chinese poetry in the case of the Shijing ( Classic of Poetry ), which records the development of poetic canons with ritual and aesthetic importance.

Classical Chinese poetics identifies four tones: the level tone, rising tone, departing tone, and entering tone.

Shi () Is the main type of Classical Chinese poetry.

It is thus the first site where the archaeology confirms the continuity of Mycenaean and Classical Greek religion, which has been inferred from the presence of the names of Classical Greek divinities on Linear B texts from Pylos and Knossos.

The usual meaning of gnostikos in Classical Greek texts is " learned " or " intellectual ", such as used in the comparison of " practical " ( praktikos ) and " intellectual " ( gnostikos ) in Plato's dialogue between Young Socrates and the Foreigner in his The Statesman ( 258e ).

Plato's use of " learned " is fairly typical of Classical texts.

* Web texts taken from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica, edited and translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, published as Loeb Classical Library # 57, 1914, ISBN 0-674-99063-3:

Some scholars have suggested it is relevant to this debate that the legendary King Arthur's name only appears as Arthur, or Arturus, in early Latin Arthurian texts, never as Artōrius ( though it should be noted that Classical Latin Artōrius became Arturius in some Vulgar Latin dialects ).

This method was applied to Classical Studies and to medieval texts as a way to reconstruct the author's original work.

For modern students today, it can be difficult to remember that the wide use and availability of written texts is a phenomenon that was just coming into vogue in Classical Greece.

In Classical times, many of the great thinkers and political leaders performed their works before an audience, usually in the context of a competition or contest for fame, political influence, and cultural capital ; in fact, many of them are known only through the texts that their students, followers, or detractors wrote down.

The locus classicus for Greek and Latin primary texts on rhetoric is the Loeb Classical Library of the Harvard University Press, published with an English translation on the facing page.

In 1824, the Classical scholar Antoine-Jean Letronne promised to prepare a new literal translation of the Greek text for Champollion's use ; Champollion promised in return an analysis of all the points at which the three texts seemed to differ.

* Theoi Project: Hestia Excerpts in translation of Classical texts.

Though it is not the first Bible to be published by the group, it is their first original translation of ancient Classical Hebrew, Koine Greek, and Old Aramaic biblical texts.

The rationalist Enlightenment led hermeneuts, especially Protestant exegetes, to view Scriptural texts as secular Classical texts.

However, it remained limited to poetry, literature, and practical texts like medicine while all state and official documents were written in Classical Chinese.

Eventually, literary Attic ( and the classic texts written in it ) came to be widely studied far beyond its original homeland, first in the Classical civilizations of the Mediterranean ( Ancient Rome and the Hellenistic world ), and later in the Muslim world, Europe, and wherever European civilization spread to other parts of the world.

Likewise, references to emmer in Greek and Latin texts are traditionally translated as " spelt ," even though spelt was not common in the Classical world until very late in its history.

Alchemists later used the Classical elements, the concept of anima mundi, and Creation stories presented in texts like Plato ’ s Timaeus as analogies for their process.

Classical Hindu texts strongly condemn abortion.

* A. J. Woodman, Velleius Paterculus: The Caesarian and Augustan Narrative ( 2. 41-93 ); Cambridge Classical texts and commentaries 25 ( Cambridge University Press, 1983, paperback 2004 ; ISBN 0-521-60702-7 )

* Velleius Paterculus: The Tiberian Narrative ; Cambridge Classical texts and commentaries 19 ( Cambridge University Press, 1977, paperback 2004 ; ISBN 0-521-60935-6 )

* 中国古典テキストデータベース （ 中国思想史研究室 ） Archive of some Classical Chinese texts about Music theories.

* Classical texts, lost to European scholars for centuries, became available.