Why did the art of Ancient Greece come to be called classic?

Because after its disappearance, they continued to look up to Greece. Although the Middle Ages are called the dark time, the barbarians tried to imitate the Hellenes for a long time. In the future, it was on the Greek and Roman cultures that the Renaissance in Europe was based. All the works of art that the Hellenic culture gave to mankind have always been an ideal and a role model, a kind of standard. All this led to the fact that Greek culture in modern society is perceived only as classical.