Classical era

Classical antiquity (also the classical era, classical period or classical age) is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, collectively known as the Greco-Roman world. It is the period in which Greek and Roman society flourished and wielded great influence throughout Europe, North Africa and Southwestern Asia.

Classical period may refer to:

• Classical Greece, specifically of the 5th and 4th centuries BC
• Classical antiquity, in the Greco-Roman world
• Classical period (music), in music
• Classic stage, of American archaeology