Classical in my words would be something that is favored now that was favored in the past. favored meaning worshiped, liked, acknowledged, respected, so on and so forth. Greece is in my book a prime example for classic because for one, im pagan Hellenic and for two it was one of the "CLASSICAL" and first well known (now and then) civilizations and other civilizations based there beliefs off of the Greek civilization like the Romans when they overtook the Greek and they based there religion off of there gods lie Poseidon being Neptune and Zeus becoming Jupiter so on and so forth.
They didn't take into consideration the tribes and their cultures and language boundaries. They just split the land as they wanted, so what happened was that tribes were mixed together or one tribe was separated into two different countries or anything similar like that occurred where disregard for culture was shown.
In the UK beside England on the left