classicist

Many contemporary classicists emphasize that these festivals were “a central part of the life of democratic Athens,” to quote Robert Connor.

"Edison Denisov was a classicist with very subtle yet strict logic. Alfred Schnittke was a romantic. My style could be best described as archaic."

His papers at the University of Illinois — he was a classicist there — have yet to be processed.

In the first part of her career, Grande was mainly a classicist with roots in hip-hop soul, ’90s R&B and brassy show tunes.

And on Wikipedia, there’s a quote by a 19th-century classicist, who says that the sisters are just appendages, and the real Gorgon is Medusa.