How did study of the classics influence branches of learning such as history literature and philosophy

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Since the Renaissance was largely the European re-discovery of classical works on such things as history, literature, and philosophy, and humanism was largely the study of classical works of history, literature, and philosophy in the ORIGINAL languages in which they were written, you could say that the classics (Greek and Latin texts that were brushed off after the Middle Ages) helped shape the European understanding of its own history, literature, and philosophy, acting as a sort of bridge between the ancient world and the modern. Classicism dug up dead Greek and Latin texts, and these texts were used as starting points for a lot of European history, lit., and philosophy. Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classicism