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Section sizes

Section size for Classical antiquity (23 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	9,020	9,020
History	240	20,906
Archaic period (c. 8th to c. 6th centuries BC)	739	6,677
Phoenicians, Carthaginians and Assyrians	1,804	1,804
Greece	875	932
Greek colonies	57	57
Iron Age Italy	691	691
Roman kingdom	2,511	2,511
Classical Greece (5th to 4th centuries BC)	2,598	2,598
Hellenistic period (323–146 BC)	944	944
Roman Republic (5th to 1st centuries BC)	1,651	1,651
Roman Empire (1st century BC to 5th century AD)	2,783	2,783
Late antiquity (4th to 6th centuries AD)	6,013	6,013
Political revivalism	3,546	3,546
Cultural legacy	2,825	2,825
Timeline	58	58
See also	422	422
Explanatory notes	38	38
References	17	512
Citations	36	36
General and cited references	459	459
Further reading	2,140	2,140
External links	480	480
Total	39,947	39,947

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Classical period...

...is a dab page, but classical era and classical age redirect here. Does this make sense? Srnec (talk) 23:32, 13 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not hugely no. Although I guess "period" is used a little more widely/loosely. Iskandar323 (talk) 06:15, 14 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I think so - after the first 2 on the dab, the rest clearly refer to other things entirely:

Classical India, a historic period of India (c. 322 BCE - c. 550 CE)
Classical Islam, a normative period in Islamic history
Classical period (music), in music
Classic stage, of American archaeology

- in fact "the classical period of ..." could refer to any number of things. Johnbod (talk) 16:38, 14 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

So yes, actually. My eyes (and mind) skipped over the music period before. Iskandar323 (talk) 17:16, 14 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Basis of European art until the Roman Imperial period"

This phrasing in the 3rd paragraph of the article introduction I think misrepresents the directions and extent in which Hellenistic culture spread. It seems to imply that, for instance, the Britons before the conquest of Claudius were influenced primarily by Greek culture. The reality is that Greek cultural influence north of the Alps, with the exception say of Massilia, was extremely limited. So, I'm going to change "European" at least to "Mediterranean", but even that doesn't encompass say the Seleucids and Bactrians, where Greek culture reached to the borders of India. Hopefully someone else can come up with a better term to pinpoint the area of Hellenic influence 148.88.245.156 (talk) 12:16, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Colosseum & culture

The Colosseum was a place of torture, which cannot be disputed. Is that 'culture'? Onoufrios d (talk) 05:09, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]