late antique

See also: Late Antique

English

Alternative forms

• late Antique
• Late Antique

Adjective

late antique (comparative more late antique, superlative most late antique)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see late,‎ antique.
2. (history) Of or pertaining to Late Antiquity (period of history).
   • 2007, Inge Uytterhoeven, “Housing in Late Antiquity: Regional Perspectives”, in Luke Lavan, Lale Özgenel, Alexander Sarantis, editors, Housing in Late Antiquity: From Palaces to Shops, BRILL, page 85:

     Late antique houses in Cyprus Have been studied by P. Hadjichritopi. […] Recently, in 2004, M. Rautman has given an overview of living in the late antique Cypriote countryside.

   • 2007, Raffaella Cribiore, The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch, Princeton University Press, page 46:

     Another grand house with shield portraits and busts of philosophers, dating from the Late Antique period, has been discovered at Aphrodisias in Caria. […] Fifteen Late Antique mosaic panels, which probably came from Syria and are dated to the late fourth or early fifth centuries, have recently been published.

   • 2012, Paul S. Johnson, Economic Evidence and the Changing Nature of Urban Space in Late Antique Rome, Universitat de Barcelona, page 91:

     The macro-scale distribution of goods across the classical and Late Antique worlds was produced by a web of small-scale interactions.

   • 2016, Marianne Bergmann, Martin Kovacs, “Portrait styles”, in R. R. R. Smith, Bryan Ward-Perkins, editors, The Last Statues of Antiquity, →ISBN, pages 289–291:

     But in the characterization of the faces, there are clear differences between more late antique and more retrospective versions.

   • 2018, Edward Watts, “The Late Ancient Philosophical Scene”, in Anna Marmodoro, Sophie Cartwright, editors, A History of Mind and Body in Late Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, page 16:

     There were still students of philosophy who committed their lives to the discipline, but they were a distinct minority among the late antique student population.

   • 2019, Philip Hardie, Classicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin Poetry, University of California Press, page 223:

     Recent work on late antique Latin literature has expended much energy in attempts to define a period.

Translations

of or pertaining to Late Antiquity

• Finnish: myöhäisantiikkinen
• French: tardo-antique
• Polish: późnoantyczny
• Swedish: senantik

Anagrams

• quinetalate