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postclassical

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post·clas·si·cal  (pst-kls-kl)
adj.
Of, relating to, or being a time following a classical period, as in art or literature.


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Kafka's German, admired for its cool rigor, is indebted to Pragerdeutsch, the exquisite postclassical German spoken in Prague by the educated Jewish elite.
The same is true for the dizzying array of authors who are invoked: ancients such as Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Quintillian, Horace, and Virgil; postclassical figures such as Plotinus and Maximus of Tyre; Renaissance writers from Ficino, Landino, and Valla to Rabelais, Ronsard, and Montaigne.
This site has some superb stelae from the Postclassical period.
 
 
 
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