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Historians and classicists attempt to fill in the blanks by drawing on texts that are similar in wording, grammar, appearance and cultural setting, known as 'parallels'.

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Many contemporary classicists emphasize that these festivals were “a central part of the life of democratic Athens,” to quote Robert Connor.

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"Edison Denisov was a classicist with very subtle yet strict logic. Alfred Schnittke was a romantic. My style could be best described as archaic."

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His papers at the University of Illinois — he was a classicist there — have yet to be processed.

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In the first part of her career, Grande was mainly a classicist with roots in hip-hop soul, ’90s R&B and brassy show tunes.

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