The basic elements of classical tradition in the mentality of Late Antiquity’s Intellectuals

Abstract

This work is dedicated to the detection of main elements of classical tradition in the mentality of Late Antiquity’s Intellectuals. The author is coming to a conclusion the basic elements were: mythology, neoplatonism, “imperial idea”. In the capacity of particular forms of translating these backbone elements the rhetorical education, poetic tradition and trends of Postclassical Latin were acted