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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Greece Poster
A poster with important images and facts from the period of decline (431-146 B.C.).
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Greek Armor
Greek soldier wearing armor.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Greek Chariot
In the battles, as depicted by Homer, the chiefs are the only important combatants, while the people are an almost useless mass, frequently put to rout by the prowess of a single hero. The chief is mounted in a war chariot, and stands by...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Greek Costume
A costume of an upper class Greek youth.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Greek Cuirass
Cup of Sosias, 5th century B.C.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Greek Funeral Pipe
A woman plays a Greek funeral pipe in the funeral procession of Hector.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Greek Poster
A poster with important images and facts of the Greek civilization.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Greek Soldier
A Greek soldier with his family.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Greek Soldier
A Greek soldier in the time of Alexander the Great.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Greek Soldiers in Arms
From a Greek vase of about the time of the battle of Marathon.-Webster, 1913
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Greek With Shield
In the Homeric times, the Greeks used a belt for the sword, and another for the shield. These passed over the shoulders and crossed upon the breast. The shield-belt lay over the other, and was the larger and broader of the two. This mode...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Greek Woman
A woman kneeling by a column, with several articles of pottery nearby.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Greeks
Greek people standing and talking under a tree.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Griffin
In heraldry, the griffin is a fabulous animal, with the head and forefeet of an eagle, and the body, hind legs, and tail of a lion. The head is represented with pricked ears, symbolical of its vigilance. In mythology, the griffin was a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Gubernaculum
A rudder. Before the invention of the rudder, which Pliny ascribes to Tiphys, the pilot of the ship Argo, vessels were both propelled and guided by oars alone. This circumstance may account for the form of the ancient rudder, as well as...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Halteres
Halteres were certain masses of stone or metal, which were used in the gymnastic exercises of the Greeks and Romans. Persons who practised leaping frequently performed their exercises with halteres in both hands; but they were also...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Herculaneum
In the following we have back and front views of the heads of statues from Herculaneum, on which we perceive the vitta. - Anthon, 1891
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Horse Race
The horse-race. - Smith, 1882
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Hurling the Javelin
The Olympic games were of greater efficacy than the Amphictyonic Council in promoting the spirit of union among the various branches of the Greek race, and in keeping alive a feeling of their common origin. They were open to all persons...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Hymen
Hymen had been called to bless with his presence the nuptials of Orpheus with Eurydice; but though he attended, he brought no happy omens with him. -Bulfinch, 1897
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Isocrates
Isocrates was the son of a prosperous flute-maker; he was born at Athens B.C. 436, and lived till 338. He represents the excellence of that species of oratory which gives the highest place to artistic form and finish, and regards the...