classicist

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Kathleen Coleman, renowned Harvard classicist, points to the words of the Roman poet Martial, who makes reference to Mars and Venus both in armor and women in the arena.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026

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

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2025

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

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2024

“He’s such a technician and this classicist and also contemporary and free — he’s an investigator, you know?”

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2023

Of “truths” like geocentrism, the four elements of the material universe, or the body’s four “humors,” one classicist has asked Why prove them?

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro