attic style

To rhetoricians perhaps it would be asiatic as opposed to attic style.

He introduced the Attic style of figural painting.

In the house the rooms range from a beamed attic style to the Chapel Room with its fine barrel ceiling.

Often, Attic styles were simply imitated.

To my surprise the prose was excellent-an Attic style, restrained yet forceful, with beautiful speaking cadences.

The Attic style statues, which had stood on the pilasters, are now in the Pötzleinsdorfer Schlosspark.

In Arrian's case this meant following the Attic style of Xenophon and Thucydides.

It is a word ultimately derived from the Attica region around Athens, Greece (via Attic style architecture).

Photius commends Conon's Attic style, and remarks that Nicolaus Damascenus borrowed much from him.

As models of Attic style Phrynichus assigns the highest place to Plato, Demosthenes, and Aeschines the Socratic.

There were different styles of rhetoric-Lucius Licinius Crassus Orator favored the Asianic style, more florid and dramatic than the Attic style.

The figures were spaced wide apart, and were designed in the Neo Attic style, a Roman version of the archaic sixth century BC Greek style.

The preference for Attic vases led to the development of local South Italian and Etrurian workshops or "schools", strongly influenced by Attic style, but producing exclusively for local markets.

The main entrance, located in the center of the north wall and flanked by two small apertures, is marked by a large arch resting on piers and crowned by an Attic style pilaster.

Although his prose work is detailed in the strung-out, non-periodic style typical of Hellenistic Greek prose before the revival of the Attic style after Cicero, Philodemus surpassed the average literary standard to which most epicureans aspired.

Production of vases was largely the prerogative of Athens - it is well attested that as in the proto-geometrical period, in Corinth, Boeotia, Argos, Crete and Cyclades, the painters and potters were satisfied to follow the Attic style.