• @PugJesusOP
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    432 months ago

    Classicism can be broadly applied to Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, because of how often the sources intermingle (with many older Greek sources transmitted through Roman copies, and many Roman sources themselves written in Greek), but there’s usually an element of specialization in one or the other for any given classicist.

    • @[email protected]
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      122 months ago

      I like the way we handle it in German, where Klassische Altertumswissenschaft is the study of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome as pioneered by Friedrich August Wolf in the 1700s, and Altertumswissenschaft is used for the more broad study of antiquity.

      • @[email protected]
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        142 months ago

        The German impulse to just smoosh words together is perpetually amusing and awe inspiring

          • @Maultasche
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            12 months ago

            Können wir aus dem Namen ein langes zusammengesetztes Substantiv draus machen?

            • Romko
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              22 months ago

              Natürlich ist daß ja doch verstatten!