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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Pelta
A small shield, Iphicrates, observing that the ancient Clipeus was cumbrous and inconvenient, introduced among the Greeks a much smaller and lighter shield, from which those who bore it took the name of peltastae. It consisted...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Peplum
An outer garment, strictly worn by females, and thus corresponding to the himation or pallium, the outer garment worn by men. Like all other pieces of cloth used for the Amictus, it was often fastened by means of a brooch. It was,...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Peplus
The peplus was a shawl which commonly formed part of the dress of females. It was often fastened by meeans ofa brooch, but was frequently worn without one, in the manner represented in the annexed cut, which is copied from one of Sir W....
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Pera
A wallet, made of leather, worn suspended at the side by rustics and by travellers to carry their provisions, and adopted in imitation of them by the Cynic philosophers. This woodcut is the representation of a goat-herd with his staff...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Pericles
An influential and important leader of Athens during the Athenian Golden Age.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Periscelis
An anklet or bangle, worn by the Orientals, the Greeks, and the Roman ladies also. It decorated the leg in the same manner as the bracelet adorns the wrist and the necklace the throat. The word, however, is sometimes used in the same...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Pero
This was a low boot of untanned hide, worn by ploughman and shepards. - Anthon, 1891
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Persian Embassador
The fate of the Persian Embassadors at Sparta.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Persona
A mask. Masks were worn by Greek and Roman actors in nearly all dramatic representations. This custom arose undoubtedly from the practice of smearing the face with certain juices and colours, and of appearing in disguise, at the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Persona
A mask. Masks were worn by Greek and Roman actors in nearly all dramatic representations. This custom arose undoubtedly from the practice of smearing the face with certain juices and colours, and of appearing in disguise, at the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Petasus
The Petasus differed from the pileus or simple skull-cap in having a wide brim: the etymology of the word, expressed the distinctive shape of these hats. It was preferred to the skull-cap as a protection from the sun. - Smith, 1873
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Phaetra
A quiver, was principally made of hide or leather, and was adorned with gold, painting, and braiding. it had a lid, and was suspended from the right shoulder by a belt passing over the breast and behind the back. Its most common position...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Phidias in His Study
Phidias was the chief glory of the administration of Pericles. To him was committed the work of making the Parthenon sublime. From his studio went forth trophy after trophy to adorn the crowning glory of the Acropolis.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Phidon Coin
Coin of Phidon - Morey, 1903
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Philip
Philip II. (Coin) - Morey, 1903
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Philip of Macedon
Philip became king of Macedonia in 359 B.C. He was viewed as he best educated man of his time.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Pileus
Any piece of felt; more especially, a skull-cap of felt, a hat. These seems no reason to doubt that felting is a more ancient invention than weaving, not that both of these arts came into Europe from Asia. From the Greeks, who were...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Platted Hair
The mode of platting the hair, and then fastening it with a pin on a needle, is shown in the annexed figure of a female head, taken from a marble group which was found at Apt, in the south of France. - Anthon, 1891
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Plaustrum
A cart or wagon. It had commonly two wheels, but sometimes four, and it was then called the plaustrum majus. Besides the wheels and axle the plaustrum consisted of a strong pole (temo), to the hinder part of which was fastened a table of...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Pnyx
Shows the bema, or platform, from which orators addressed the assembled citizens.-Webster, 1913
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Porch Maidens
Porch of the Maidens (Caryatides) - Morey, 1903
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Poseidon Temple
Temple of Poseidon at Paestum. - The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1910
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Priam
This illustration shows the Death of Priam, by Benvenuto.