Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index In its classic sense, "classics", when used as a singular noun, means the study of the language, literature, history, art, and other aspects of ancient Greece and Rome, as well as ancient China during the time frame of classical antiquity. As a plural noun "classics" are books written in ancient Greece, Rome and China. The study of classics is a primary subject for the humanities, and the people reading classics are sometimes called humanists. Ancient Greece Greek language Greek mythology Greek literature Greek architecture Ancient Rome Latin Roman mythology Latin literature Rhetoric Ancient China Chinese classic texts Chinese philosophy Post-Classical Scholarship Humanism Philology Classics can also mean (typically in non-academic contexts) classic books. See also: Classics basic topics This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.