preclassic civilizations - part.1

The classic word comes from the Latin classis that identifies the first instance, the higher one, of a school. Classicus applying the adjective to the noun author recognizes the author of the first order. So the classic word has this semantic bifurcation which can refer to either the highest degree that the author be taken as a model. Closing the long period of the Middle Ages, with the final decline after the collapse of the Roman Empire of Constantinople, many scholars from the East move to the West starting the discovery made in the Renaissance of the distant past Greek. This powerful suggestion leads to ignore any form of art that does not conform to the ancient examples, the Classicus Author Greek and Roman. It begins to take shape the Greek Classicism.