Thus in the classical tradition of later Western art and literature, the mythology of the two figures becomes virtually indistinguishable.

Within the later tradition of Western Civilization and classical revival the Acropolis, from at least the mid-18th century on, has often been invoked as a key symbol of the Greek legacy and of the glories of Classical Greece.

Completed in 1824, the symphony is one of the best-known works of the Western classical repertoire.

However, the term classical music is used colloquially to describe a variety of Western musical styles from the ninth century to the present, and especially from the sixteenth or seventeenth to the nineteenth.

Martin had to invent the word quanli to translate the Western concept of " rights " in the process of translating Henry Wheaton's Elements of International Law into classical Chinese.

He spelled his own given name with a " C " in order to identify with the classical Western tradition ; writers who wrongly use " Karl " are seeking to emphasize his German identity.

The concept of the five classical elements in the Western tradition may originate from Babylonian mythology.

Some Western modern occultists equate the Chinese classical element of metal with air, others with wood due to the elemental association of wind and wood in the ba gua.

Regardless when and by what route it reached England and the British colonies in its recognizable form, croquet is, like pall mall, trucco, jeu de mail and kolven, clearly a derivative of ground billiards, which was popular in Western Europe back to at least the 14th century, with roots in classical antiquity.

Girardot, Miller and Liu ( 2001: xxxi ) explain, " earlier discussions of the Daoist tradition were often distorted and misleading — especially in terms of the special Western fascination with the ' classical ' or ' philosophical ' Daode jing and the denigration and neglect of the later sectarian traditions.

The double bass is a standard member of the string section of the symphony orchestra and smaller string ensembles in Western classical music.

Western classical education as taught from the 18th to the 19th century has missing features that inspired reformers.

The bamboo flute is an important instrument in Indian classical music, and developed independently of the Western flute.

The Western visual norm that would become classical continuity editing was developed and exported – although its adoption was slower in some non-Western countries without strong realist traditions in art and drama, such as Japan.

During the later years of the Roman Empire, the Germanic peoples of northern Europe grew in strength to rival the Empire itself, and repeated organized attacks led to the Fall of the Western Roman Empire in AD 476, a date which traditionally marks the end of the classical period, and the start of the middle ages.

The collapse of the Western Roman Empire did not lead to the same wholesale destruction of Western classical society as happened in areas like Roman Britain, Gaul and Germania Inferior during the Dark Ages, although the institutions, infrastructure and economy did suffer considerable degradation.

In the Western classical tradition, Homer (;, Hómēros ) is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet.

The Illyrians (; or Illyri ) were a group of tribes who inhabited the Western Balkans during classical antiquity.

The double-action pedal harp remains the normal form of the instrument in the Western classical orchestra.

The spread and following of Western classical music in India is almost entirely non-existent.

It is mainly patronized by the Indian Zoroastrian community and small esoteric groups with historical exposure to Western classical music.

Many reasons have been cited for the obscurity of Western classical music in India, a country rich in its musical heritage by its own right, however the two main reasons are an utter lack of exposure and a passive disinterest in what is considered esoteric at best.

Also, the difficulty in importing Western musical instruments and their rarity has also contributed to the obscurity of classical Western music.

Despite Mahathir's frequently anti-Western rhetoric he worked closely with Western countries, and led a crackdown against Islamic fundamentalists after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

'" When describing his views of the peace process among Arab leaders and in the media of the Arab world, Arafat's rhetoric became noticeably more bellicose than it was when among Western leaders and media outside of the Arab world.

As a subject of formal study and a productive civic practice, rhetoric has played a central role in the Western tradition.

However, even the original instructors of Western speech — the Sophists — disputed this limited view of rhetoric.

* August 22 – Arbogast nominates Eugenius, Roman teacher of rhetoric, as the next emperor of the Western Roman Empire.

The end of the Historia coincides with the massacre of the Latins in Constantinople and the chaos that followed the coup of Andronicus I Comnenus, and in his description of those events, William was certainly not immune to the extreme anti-Greek rhetoric that was often found in Western European sources.

The Soviet Union and Western European leaders both complained that this kind of rhetoric ran against the " code of détente " that Nixon and Kissinger had established.

The term is often used in political rhetoric to refer to only North America and South America ( or the New World ) and adjacent islands ; however, the Western Hemisphere technically includes all of the aforementioned territories.

Scholars of classical Western rhetoric have divided figures of speech into two main categories: schemes and tropes.

A former teacher of grammar and rhetoric, as well as magister scrinorum, Eugenius was an acquaintance of the Frank magister militum and of the de facto ruler of the Western Roman Empire, Arbogast.

German insistence that the document carry anti-Semitic rhetoric was successfully parried by Vlasov's committee ; however, they were obliged to include a statement criticising the Western Allies, labelling them " plutocracies " that were " allies of Stalin in his conquest of Europe ".

The " canonical approach " to studying visual rhetoric relates visual concepts to the canons of Western classical rhetoric ( Inventio, Dispositio, Elocutio, Memoria and Pronuntiatio ).

Another view is that though Primakov's rhetoric was anti-Western, he actually complied with Western wishes.

He argued that such claims were prevalent in the Soviet Union, but added that similar rhetoric had been taken up by a part of the radical Left, particularly Trotskyist groups in Western Europe and America.

* Exordium ( rhetoric ), the introductory section of a discourse in Western classical rhetoric ; e. g., the 1st 4 verses of Hebrews in the Bible

As it has evolved Western notions of high culture have been associated at various times with: The study of " humane letters " especially the Greek and Latin classics and more broadly all works considered to be part of " the canon "; the cultivation of refined etiquette and manners ; an appreciation of the fine arts-especially sculpture and painting ; a knowledge of such literature, drama, and poetry considered to be of high caliber ; enjoyment of European classical music and opera ; religion and theology often with a special focus on Europe's predominantly Christian tradition ; rhetoric and politics ; the study of philosophy and history ; a taste for gourmet cuisine and wine ; being well traveled and especially " The Grand Tour of Europe "; certain sports associated with elites such as polo, horsemanship, fencing, and yachting.

Inventio is the system or method used for the discovery of arguments in Western rhetoric and comes from the Latin word, meaning " invention " or " discovery ".

Dispositio is the system used for the organization of arguments in Western classical rhetoric.

Memoria was the term for aspects involving memory in Western classical rhetoric.

Elocutio is the term for the mastery of stylistic elements in Western classical rhetoric and comes from the Latin loqui, " to speak ".

Pronuntiatio was the discipline of delivering speeches in Western classical rhetoric.

In Western classical rhetoric, the exordium was the introductory portion of an oration.