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Prokofieff's Classical Symphony was hailed as an ingenious work from a naturally gifted and well-trained musician still in his twenties.

In the next century which is the beginning of the Classical period, it was considered that beauty in visible things as in everything else, consisted of symmetry and proportions.

The Apollo Belvedere is a marble sculpture that was rediscovered in the late 15th century ; for centuries it epitomized the ideals of Classical Antiquity for Europeans, from the Renaissance through the 19th century.

Classical Athens was a powerful city-state.

Classical Arminianism ( sometimes titled Reformed Arminianism or Reformation Arminianism ) is the theological system that was presented by Jacobus Arminius and maintained by some of the Remonstrants ; its influence serves as the foundation for all Arminian systems.

Classical Arminians would agree with Calvinists that this substitution was penal satisfaction for all of the elect, while most Wesleyan Arminians would maintain that the substitution was governmental in nature.

Classical dramatisations differ on how willing either father or daughter were to this fate, some include such trickery as claiming she was to be married to Achilles, but Agamemnon did eventually sacrifice Iphigenia.

Agasias was the name of several different people in Classical history, including two different Greek sculptors.

Vipsania Agrippina or most commonly known as Agrippina Major or Agrippina the Elder ( Major Latin for the elder, Classical Latin:, 14 BC – 17 October 33 ) was a distinguished and prominent Roman woman of the first century AD.

Julia Agrippina, most commonly referred to as Agrippina Minor or Agrippina the Younger, and after 50 known as Julia Augusta Agrippina ( Minor Latin for the ‘ younger ’, Classical Latin: ;, 7 November 15 or 6 November 16 – 19 / 23 March 59 ) was a Roman Empress and one of the more prominent women in the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

Among Classical Greeks, amazon was given a popular etymology as from a-mazos, " without breast ", connected with an etiological tradition that Amazons had their left breast cut off or burnt out, so they would be able to use a bow more freely and throw spears without the physical limitation and obstruction ; there is no indication of such a practice in works of art, in which the Amazons are always represented with both breasts, although the left is frequently covered ( see photos in article ).

This production was recorded on DVD, and subsequently won the 2009 Grammy Awards for " Best Classical Album " and " Best Opera Recording.

Greeks of the Classical age always detected that there was something alien and uncanny about the Aegis.

During the Classical period in Athens, she was identified with Hecate.

By 1959 the Coins and Medals office suite, completely destroyed during the war, was rebuilt and re-opened, attention turned towards the gallery work with new tastes in design leading to the remodelling of Robert Smirke's Classical and Near Eastern galleries.

The method of study in the Classical World was “ Philo ’ s Rule ”: ( lit.

Classical philology was a major preoccupation of the 19th-century German

The Italian composer Domenico Scarlatti was an important figure in the transition from Baroque to Classical.

In short, the late Classical was seeking a music that was internally more complex.

It is through Boethius that much of the thought of the Classical period was made available to the Western Medieval world.

Claudius also tried to revive the old custom of putting dots between successive words ( Classical Latin was written with no spacing ).

Classical liberalism was the dominant political theory in Britain from the early 19th century until the First World War.

Classical liberalism was often associated with religious dissent and nonconformism.

# An ancient Greek currency unit found in many Greek city states from Classical times on, as well as in many of Alexander's successor states and South-West Asian kingdoms during the Hellenistic era.

During Rome's Classical period, the body was most often cremated, and the ashes placed in a tomb outside the city walls.

The inscribed plinth would have moved the dating of the statue from the Classical period to the Hellenistic period because of the style of lettering and the mention of the ancient city of Antioch on the Maeander, which did not exist in the early fourth century BC, when Praxiteles lived.

The city reemerged after the end of the Minoan period as an important city-state in Classical Greece, one whose domain extended from Chania Bay to the feet of the White Mountains.

The city of Chania during the period that followed was a blend of Byzantine, Venetian and Classical Greek cultural elements.

Later in the Classical period, the leagues would become fewer and larger, be dominated by one city ( particularly Athens, Sparta and Thebes ); and often poleis would be compelled to join under threat of war ( or as part of a peace treaty ).

A small market town on the Corinth-Návplion rail line, it is built over much of the site of the Classical city.

In a treaty between the Hittite Great King Tudhaliya IV and his vassal, the king of Tarhuntassa, we read of the city " Parha " ( Perge ), and the " Kastaraya River " ( Classical Kestros River, Turkish Aksu Çayı ).

Tunna was an ancient Anatolian city during the Syro-Hittite period, and later was a part of the Classical Trunna.

The city is also home to a number of mostly religious private schools, including Holy Cross Regional Catholic School, James River Day School, Liberty Christian Academy, New Covenant Classical Christian School, and Virginia Episcopal School.

In Classical times, the nome it governed was one of the nomes assigned to that division of the native army which was called the Calasires, and the city was celebrated for the manufacture of a perfume designated as the Mendesium unguentum.

The Long Walls connecting the ancient city of Classical Athens | Athens to its port of Piraeus.

The series, which are set in a Classical interior, shows the story of the fashionable marriage of the son of bankrupt Earl Squanderfield to the daughter of a wealthy but miserly city merchant, starting with the signing of a marriage contract at the Earl's mansion and ending with the murder of the son by his wife's lover and the suicide of the daughter after her lover is hanged at Tyburn for murdering her husband.

Urban secession movements theories of why a city should be at least partially independent of surrounding regions, goes back to Classical Rome, 17th-century London, 18th-century Amsterdam and other centers of commercial activity.

Mantineia () was a city in ancient Greece that was the site of two significant battles in Classical Greek history.

* Classical Athens, the city in Classical Antiquity

At the modern settlement of Hersonissos is the site of the ancient town of Chersonesos, an important seaport from Classical Greece through Byzantine times that served the city of Lyttos.

The former city of Olympos was founded in the Hellenistic period, presumably taking its name from nearby Mount Olympos (, Timber Mountain ), one of over twenty mountains with the name Olympos in the Classical world.

The festival has been held ever since, typically on the second weekend of December in Pune, Maharashtra and has become not only a cultural event for the city, but an annual pilgrimage for Hindustani Classical Music lovers all over the world.

Carchemish had been previously identified, incorrectly, with the Classical city of Circesium, at the confluence of the Khabur River and the Euphrates, while some early scholars thought that Jarabulus could be Hierapolis Bambyce, although that site is actually located at Manbij in Syria.

The new All Hallows took its inspiration from the Classical world and was remarkably simple in form, with no aisles ; its interior consists solely of a barrel-vaulted nave with a half-dome apse at the far end, with decoration deriving from the ancient Temple of Venus and Rome in the city of Rome.

The allusions from Classical Antiquity included in the speech are to the Sacred Band of Thebes and the Persian Immortals — elite units of, respectively, the city state of Thebes and the Achaemenid Kings of Persia ; and to the Battle of Issus where Alexander the Great decisively defeated the latter.

* A Classical theater, 84 meters in diameter with 35 rows of seats, that could sit 4, 000-6, 000 people, equipped with three loges for the rulers of the city.