Classical

Classical may refer to:

European antiquity

 * Classical antiquity, a period of history from roughly the 7th or 8th century B.C.E. to the 5th century C.E. centered on the Mediterranean Sea
 * Classical architecture, architecture derived from Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity
 * Classical mythology, the body of myths from the ancient Greeks and Romans
 * Classical tradition, the reception of classical Greco-Roman antiquity by later cultures
 * Classics, study of the language and culture of classical antiquity, particularly its literature
 * Classicism, a high regard for classical antiquity in the arts

Music and arts

 * Classical ballet, the most formal of the ballet styles
 * Classical music, a variety of Western musical styles from the 9th century to the present
 * Classical guitar, a common type of acoustic guitar
 * Classical Hollywood cinema, a visual and sound style in the American film industry between 1927 and 1963
 * Classical Indian dance, various codified art forms whose theory can be traced back to 400 BC
 * Classical period (music), a period of increased interest in classicism from 1750 to 1825
 * Classical unities, rules for drama derived from a passage in Aristotle's Poetics
 * Classical (album), a 1997 album by Wolf Hoffmann
 * A Classical, a 2013 album by Ayumi Hamasaki

Language

 * Classical language, any language with a literature that is considered classical
 * Classical Arabic, the Arabic language in which the Qur'an is written
 * Classical Armenian, the oldest attested form of the Armenian language
 * Classical Chinese, the language of the classic literature from the end of the Spring and Autumn period
 * Classical French, the French language as systematised in the 17th and 18th centuries
 * Classical Latin, the Latin language used by the ancient Romans
 * Classical Nahuatl, the language spoken by Aztec nobles in the Valley of Mexico at the time of the 16th-century Spanish conquest

Science and mathematics

 * Classical economics, school of economics developed in the late 18th and early 19th century
 * Classical logic, a class of formal logics that have been most intensively studied and most widely used
 * Classical mathematics, mathematics constructed and proved on the basis of classical logic and set theory
 * Classical mechanics, the set of physical laws describing the motion of bodies under the action of a system of forces
 * Classical physics, the study of physics before the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics

Other uses

 * Classical liberalism, a political philosophy and ideology belonging to liberalism
 * Classical conditioning, a kind of learning that occurs when a conditioned stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus
 * Classical time control, a category of time control used in chess
 * The Classical, a defunct American sports website