classical antiquity

How to use classical antiquity in a sentence

• How rich in poetry was classical antiquity, whether sung in the Greek or Latin language!

  Beacon Lights of History, Volume I | John Lord

• By definition the renaissance was primarily a literary and scholarly movement derived from the literature of classical antiquity.

  Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance | Donald Lemen Clark

• In classical antiquity there were spoken a large number of local dialects, several of which are represented in the literature.

  Language | Edward Sapir

• Afterward, yielding to the inclinations of his nature and his taste for classical antiquity, Merezhkovsky insensibly changed.

  Contemporary Russian Novelists | Serge Persky

• For the rest his dramas might, so far as their philosophy is concerned, have come down to us from classical antiquity.

  Ephemera Critica | John Churton Collins