Eras
In this chapter the authors survey place and status of classical antiquity within alternative historical frames. Within sequence that leads from Greco-Roman to postmodern (or post-postmodern) present, continue distinguish late antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance ‘early modern’ period), then a series periods which, indeed, oscillate awkwardly between political literary-historical, art-historical, or history ideas: neoclassical era (subsuming eighteenth-century Enlightenment); Romantic period; period nationalism, empire, ideology which in Britain, sometimes elsewhere, is labelled Victorian age. They also focus on what one might call ‘classical’ modernity modernist movements, art literature) in, roughly, first half twentieth century.