The person of the artist becomes a final bastion of meaning in a world rendered meaningless by the march of events and the decay of classical religious and philosophical systems.

In many parts of the world, acropoleis became the nuclei of large cities of classical antiquity, such as ancient Rome, which in more recent times grew up on the surrounding lower ground, such as modern Rome.

The classical languages of the Ancient Mediterranean world influenced every European language, imparting to each a learned vocabulary of international application.

Ecclesiastical Latin, the Roman Catholic Church ’ s official tongue, remains a living legacy of the classical world to the contemporary world.

The Viking siege of Paris ( 885 – 6 A. D .) “ saw the employment by both sides of virtually every instrument of siege craft known to the classical world, including a variety of catapults ,” to little effect, resulting in failure.

He incorporated the knowledge of Africa, the Indian Ocean and the Far East, gathered by Arab merchants and explorers with the information inherited from the classical geographers to create the most accurate map of the world up until his time.

In Greek mythology, Delphi was the site of the Delphic oracle, the most important oracle in the classical Greek world, and a major site for the worship of the god Apollo after he slew the Python, a dragon who lived there and protected the navel of the Earth.

Paris had arguably been the classical music capital of the world since the advent of musical Impressionism in the late 19th century.

The veneration of that classical past, particularly pre-Christian Rome, the new availability of Greek philosophical works, the successes of humanism and natural science along with the fragmentation of the Christian churches and increased understanding of other faiths, all helped erode the image of the church as the unique source of wisdom, destined to dominate the whole world.

He writes chamber music, baroque music, classical, jazz, renaissance music, improvisational music and world music

It was one of the first classical manuscripts to be printed in 1470, and has remained popular ever since as a source of information on the Roman world, and especially Roman art, Roman technology and Roman engineering.

It appears to have been heavily influenced by divinatory tarot, the four classical elements of ancient Greece, and mythologies from around the world.

The greatest names of the classical and patristic world are among those translated, edited or annotated by Erasmus, including Saint Ambrose, Aristotle, Saint Augustine, Saint Basil, Saint John Chrysostom, Cicero and Saint Jerome.

Greek was a widely spoken lingua franca in the Mediterranean world and beyond during classical antiquity, and would eventually become the official parlance of the Byzantine Empire.

Graffiti in the classical world had different connotations than it carries in today's society concerning content.

The most important Roman historian of the classical world was Tacitus ( late 1st and early 2nd century AD ).

Scholastic European scholars, who sought to reconcile the philosophy of the ancient classical philosophers with Christian theology, proclaimed Aristotle the greatest thinker of the ancient world.

This is known as the classical period of Indian history, during which time India has sometimes been estimated to have had the largest economy of the ancient and medieval world, with its huge population generating between one fourth and one third of the world's income up to the 18th century.

Adherents of the classical world religions account for more than 75 % of the world's population, while adherence to indigenous tribal religions has fallen to 4 %.

Tracing the exact origins of modern science is possible through the many important texts which have survived from the classical world.

While empirical investigations of the natural world have been described since classical antiquity ( for example, by Thales, Aristotle, and others ), and scientific methods have been employed since the Middle Ages ( for example, by Ibn al-Haytham, Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī and Roger Bacon ), the dawn of modern science is generally traced back to the early modern period, during what is known as the Scientific Revolution that took place in 16th and 17th century Europe.

Indian pop music, often known as Indipop or Indi-pop, is based on an amalgamation of Indian folk and classical music, and modern beats from different parts of the world.

Jason appeared in various literature in the classical world of Greece and Rome, including the epic poem Argonautica and tragedy, Medea.

Jason has connections outside of the classical world, as he is seen as being the mythical founder of the city of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia.

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 classical phase of Indo-European comparative linguistics leads from Franz Bopp's Comparative Grammar ( 1833 ) to August Schleicher's 1861 Compendium and up to Karl Brugmann's Grundriss, published in the 1880s.

However, Karl Marx never used the phrase " labor theory of value " to describe his theory of value, but instead made reference to a law of value, which is not to be confused with the classical economics concept of labor theory of price.

Karl Jacobi's generalization of the identity to n bodies and to the present form of Laplace's identity closely resembles the classical virial theorem.

In classical political economy and especially in Karl Marx's critique of political economy, a commodity is an object or a good or service (" product " or " activity ") produced by human labour.

At the same time, classical scholarship revived, with works by Jeremiah Markland and Peter Elmsley, as well as early 19th century texts edited by a growing number of academics from mainland Europe – perhaps the most prominent being August Immanuel Bekker and Karl Wilhelm Dindorf.

Karl Marx analysed Crusoe in his classic work Das Kapital, mocking the heavy use in classical economics of the fictional story.

They had two sons, Karl Ulrich Schnabel ( 1909 – 2001 ) who also became a classical pianist and renowned piano teacher, and Stefan Schnabel ( 1912 – 99 ), who became a well regarded actor.

Karl Otfried Müller collected and evaluated the various fragments of the story from classical authors.

While studying in Germany, Latrobe was mentored by a Baron Karl von Schachmann, a classical scholar interested in art and collecting.

Refining the classical distinction between fixed and circulating capital in Das Kapital, Karl Marx emphasizes that it is really purely relative, i. e. refers only to the comparative rotation speeds ( turnover time ) of different types of physical capital assets.

Karl Mannheim ( March 27, 1893 – January 9, 1947 ), or Károly Mannheim in the original writing of his name, was a Hungarian-born sociologist, influential in the first half of the 20th century and one of the founding fathers of classical sociology as well as a founder of the sociology of knowledge.

Karl Marx-Hof, classical public housing in Vienna

Karl Wilhelm Dindorf ( January 2, 1802 – August 1, 1883 ; the Latinised form of his name is Guilielmus Dindorfius ), German classical scholar, was born at Leipzig.

Karl Felix Halm ( 5 April 1809-5 October 1882 ), was a German classical scholar and critic.

The term " classical economics " was coined by Karl Marx to refer to Ricardian economics – the economics of David Ricardo and James Mill and their predecessors – but usage was subsequently extended to include the followers of Ricardo.

Karl Friedrich Hermann ( August 4, 1804 – December 31, 1855 ) was a German classical scholar and antiquary.

Of the classical founders of social science, conflict theory is most commonly associated with Karl Marx ( 1818 – 1883 ).

The classical approach has been criticized by many modern sociologists and theorists, among them Karl Popper, Robert Nisbet, Charles Tilly and Immanuel Wallerstein.

In the classical political economy of Adam Smith and David Ricardo, and in its critique by Karl Marx, human labour is seen as the ultimate source of all new economic value.

Among the more influential scientists have been Harold Gulliksen ( whose book, " Theory of Mental Tests ," helped codify classical test theory ); Frederic Lord ( Item Response Theory ); Samuel Messick, ( modern validity theory ); Robert Linn ( currently known for testing and educational policy ); Norman Frederiksen ( performance assessment ); Ledyard Tucker ( test analysis, including inventing the " Angoff Method " of standard setting ); Donald Rubin ( missing data and causal modeling from observational data ); Karl Joreskog ( structural equation modeling and confirmatory factor analysis ); Paul Holland ( differential item functioning, test equating, causal modeling ); John Carroll ( language testing and cognitive psychology ); Michael Lewis ( infant cognitive, social, and emotional development ); Irving Sigel ( children's cognitive development ); Herman Witkin ( cognitive and learning styles ); K. Patricia Cross ( adult education ); Samuel Ball ( an evaluation researcher who documented the positive educational effects of Sesame Street ); and David Rosenhan ( known for the Rosenhan experiment, which challenged the validity of psychiatric diagnosis ).

Karl Ludwig Lehrs ( January 14, 1802 – June 9, 1878 ), was a German classical scholar.

After attending the classical schools of Ludwigsburg and Maulbronn, he was apprenticed in a cloth factory, but, in 1804, owing to the good services of Professor Karl Philipp Conz, was able to enter the University of Tübingen.

He critically engaged classical nineteenth and early twentieth century social theorists such as Auguste Comte, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Émile Durkheim, Alfred Schutz, Robert K. Merton, Erving Goffman, and Jürgen Habermas.

In the twentieth century, Wales produced a large number of classical and operatic soloists of international reputation, including Ben Davies, Geraint Evans, Robert Tear, Bryn Terfel, Gwyneth Jones, Rebecca Evans and Helen Watts, as well as composers such as Alun Hoddinott, William Mathias and Karl Jenkins.