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Originally Posted by tooblue
Certainly not, just curious why Japanese and Chinese ect. are not considered when speaking of classicists languages?
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"Classical" generally by definition refers to that comprehensive world outlook and system of values that took root in Athens and sprang up and flourished for a time throughout much of the Greek Isles after the Persian menace was turned back, and later became the pervasive ideology, value system and touchstone in the Roman Empire. Thanks to Alexander this culture was spread and became embedded into what we now know as the Middle East, thereby preparing the soil for Christianity and its Greek New Testament, created by Hellenized Jews.
So in answer to an earlier question, Alexander's dyansty still lives, and you belong to it.