User:Jahsonic/Who makes the classics?
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Who makes the classics? Etymologically, the term classics comes from classicus.
The term classicus meant first class, the highest social class in ancient Rome, according to property ownership.
Classics are thus paired with the ruling classes and their "high culture" becomes the culture.
I've said it before, history is what we choose to remember rather than forget and the discovery of Pompeii and its treasure trove of Roman erotica should have caused a culture clash with regards to the developments of neoclassicism. Instead, the discoveries were hushed or disparaged by the likes of Goethe when he praised the classics as healthy. Neoclassicism continued its puritan ways, although some of its spirit was to creep up later in Fuseli and Lequeu and burst wide open with Romanticism.
