Talk:Classical Greece

message: Some suggestions/observations that arose during my proofread:
*It would be good to make a note somewhere in the article--at least for a while--that it's a translation. I believe I've seen that done elsewhere, but not sure where.
*The corresponding article on FR WP has since been broken up into separate articles. Someone familiar with the related EN articles may want to consider following suit here, or at least adding/redoing some interwiki links.
**The original FR WP article was apparently :fr:Époque classique; by the time the English translation process was complete, the FR WP article had been made into a stub and its body moved into two articles (5th c. and 4th c.): :fr:Grèce classique au Ve siècle and :fr:Grèce classique au IVe siècle.
*I suggest all dates drop the "BC" and the article have a note at the top explaining that all dates are BC unless otherwise indicated. This is common practice in books and articles dealing primarily with BC dates.
*The title of the first sub-section under Theban hegemony..., 5th-century Boeotion confederacy (447-386), doesn't seem to jive with the 4th-century events described in it.
*Please note that I am not an expert on this topic and may have misinterpreted some French expressions as a result.
The Hellenistic period is different from the classical period. It goes archaic, classical, late classical, then hellenistic  
-Eric (talk) 21:47, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proofreader's notes 

message: This article seems slightly too focused on Athens to me. I understand that they were the most significant state during that time period, but they were far from the only one, and other events happening at that time like what was happening in the Greek Colonies at the time seems to be understated. Thanks. Lemming42 (talk) 19:43, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too centered on Athens? 

message: This article needs to be severely overhauled. Between the misspellings, the confusing backtracking text, and lack of citations makes for a very poor and unintelligable article. I will try to catch and fix all of the typos, but someone more familiar with the origins of content needs to varify things and reorganize.JanderVK (talk) 15:33, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poor Quality 

message: The opening sentence says "Classical Greece was a culture that was highly advanced and which heavily influenced the cultures of Ancient Rome and still has an enduring effect on European civilization". I am going to change European civilization to Western civilization since it seems obvious to me that classical greece has a broader influence on the entire Western world and not just Europe. Any objections, thoughts, ect.? 99.241.90.42 (talk) 15:47, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  European Civilization or Western Civilization 

message: This section seems overly long. I know that it is a pivotal era of Classical Greece, but there is a lot of repetition (especially in the early paragraphs, where it repeats almost verbatim aspects of the section preceding it), and it has its own article. It really needs to be pared down. I am not enough of an expert to determine what's the detail, and what's the major points, so I'm asking please for an experienced editor of this article to take a look at this. I think the length is and level of detail is far too much. It would help the flow of the article to summarize. Jbower47 (talk) 13:52, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. There's no need for this much information to be here instead of the sub-articles on this history. -- Khazar (talk) 04:37, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pelop. War section too long 

message: Overemphasizing the events of the Second Persian Invasion (here as well as in other articles such as Greece, Greek History) by labelling the correspondent section as 'Persian era' is clearly wp:undo weight. This was nothing more than a failed invasion which lasted 2-3 years in total, generally described in history as "Persian Wars" and of course the expressions "incorporation of Thessaly into the Persian Empire" is misleading. Moreover the addition of the Achaemenid Empire map is the epitomy of wp:undue here, while even the correspondent map of the Greek-Persian Wars is absent in this article.Alexikoua (talk) 07:30, 25 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Persian era?

message: I removed the following unreferenced statement: "  Noted commentator Marianna de Marzi has also observed the extent to which Classical Greek thought has influenced the progression of Western civilization, writing: "The profundity of the knowledge gained through this period in history; in art, mathematics, music and more, is incomparable to almost any other chapter in human inquiry. " - I've never heard of de Marzi, and doing a few searches turned up nothing involving her name and any scholarly tracts on Classical Greece. Particularly troubling is the statement about music - nothing survives of music from the ancient world except a few restored instruments and depictions in artwork. We have no idea of how it sounded. Ancient Greece had no known impact on the development of European classical music, which developed from the Renaissance. 50.111.19.178 (talk) 15:47, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  unreferenced and possibly not a qualified source