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To capitalize "Archaic Greece" and "Classical Greece" shows clearly that the phrase refers to something that can be more or less dated and defined in accordance with usage in modern scholarship; lowercase would be more ambiguous as to whether "archaic" and "classical" were being used loosely as synonyms for "ancient."
Yes, "ancient Greece" seems more common than "Ancient Greece", but the latter capitalisation has a reasonable level of currency. Certainly enough for us not to say it is wrong. If authors believe a style using the latter is suitable for the audience they are targetting, then they should be allowed to use it, jguk 08:19, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
The most common English form of an Ancient Greek name or term may fall into any of three groups: . Latinization. This is the traditional English way of representing most Greek names in English and is well-represented in the naming of Wikipedia articles: Jesus and Uranus (not Iēsoûs or Ouranós), Alexander and Byzantium (not Aléxandros or Byzántion), Plato and Apollo (not Plátōn or ...
While there is the bright-line the interpretation that the names of the ancient philosophies have all long ago come to be accepted as proper names that should be capitalized (even my spell-checker didn’t want to allow me to write “neoplationism” without the capital N), there are interpretations that these are not proper names and ...
Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization.In English, capitalization is primarily needed for proper names, acronyms, and for the first letter of a sentence. [a] Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia.
Do not capitalize the second or subsequent words in an article title, unless the title is a proper name. For multiword page titles, one should leave the second and subsequent words in lowercase unless the title phrase is a proper name that would always occur capitalized , even mid-sentence.
Britain should hand back the disputed Elgin Marbles to Greece in “a grand gesture”, former Brexit minister Lord Frost has said. The Conservative peer argued the ancient sculptures housed in ...
Many settlements, however, should keep the same name; it is a question of fact, of actual English usage, in all cases. For example, when discussing the city now called Istanbul, Wikipedia uses Byzantium in ancient Greece, and Constantinople for the capital of the Byzantine Empire.