late antique

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1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see late, antique.
2. historyOf or pertaining to Late Antiquity (period of history).

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

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

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   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, 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

   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.

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

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

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

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

   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

   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.

   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

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1. Alternative letter-case form of late antique.