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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: The Olympieum
The Olympieum in Athens, Greece.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Theater of Dionysus
One of the earliest open-air theaters in Athens, Greece.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Tomb of Atreus
The Tomb of Atreus also known as the Treasury of Atreus is a tomb located in Mycenae, Greece built between 1250 and 1300 B.C. The face of the tomb consists of columns and has a triangle above the doorway. The tomb has an interior that is...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Tragedy Masks
Tragedy masks. The origin of Greek drama is to be found in the yearly celebrations in honor of Dionysus, god of wine. Riotous festivals were held, during which the god of wine was extolled with carousals and boisterous songs, these...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Treasury of Atreus Doorway
The Treasury of Atreus or Tomb of Agamemnon is an impressive "tholos" tomb at Mycenae, Greece (on the Panagitsa Hill) constructed around 1250 BCE. The lintel stone above the doorway weighs 120 tons. The tomb was used for an unknown...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Accubation
The act of lying or reclining; specifically, the ancient practice, derived from the Orient, of eating meals in a recumbent position. -Whitney, 1902
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Aegean Snake Goddess
The sculpture of an ancient Snake Goddess. The artifact demonstrates typical Minoan female attire.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Apoxyomenos
An ancient sculpture representing an athlete using a strigil to scrape sweat and dust off his body.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Ascia
An adze. Muratori has published numerous representations of the adze, as it is exhibited on ancient monuments. We select the three following, two of which show the instrument itself, with a slight variety of form, while the third...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Athenian Tombs
Street of tombs outside Ancient Athens. -Breasted, 1914
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Atramentum
A term applicable to any black colouring substance, for whatever purpose it may be used, like the melan of the Greeks. There were, however, thress principal kinds of atramentum: one called librarium or scriptorium, writing-ink; another...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Chariot
Arms and a chariot are here assigned to June through not properly a warlike goddess. The idea itself, of giving such appendages to Diety, seems borrowed from the habits of the heroic age. The following delineation of a chariot is from an...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Cista
A small box or chest, in which anything might be placed, but more particularly applied to the small boxes which were carried in procession in the festivals of Ceres and Bacchus. These boxes, which were always kept closed in the public...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Colossus at Rhodes
Statue of the Greek god Helios. It is currently considered to be one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was one of the tallest statues during its time, standing at over 30 meters (107 feet).
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Cornu
A wind instrument, anciently made of horn, but afterwards of brass. Like the tuba, it differed from the tibia in being a larger and more powerful instrument, and from the tuba itself, in being curved nearly in the shape of a C, with a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Cyathus
A Greek and Roman liquid measure, containing one-twelfth of the sextarius, or .0825 of a pint English. The form of the cyathus used at banquets was that of a small ladle, by means of which the wine was conveyed into the drinking-cups...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Delphi
An ancient Greek town. In Greek mythology, the most important oracle resided at Delphi.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Fax
A torch. In the annexed woodcut, the female figure is copied from a fictile vase. The winged figure on the left hand, asleep and leaning on a torch, is from a funeral monument at Rome. The other winged figure represents Cupid as Lethaus...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Fibula
A brooch, consisting of a pin, and of a curved portion furnished with a hook. The curved portion was sometimes a circular ring or disc, the pin passing across its centre and sometimes an arc, the pin being as the chord, of the arc. The...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Focus
A fire-place; a hearth; a brazier. The fire-place possessed a sacred character, and was dedicated among the Romans to the Lares of each family. Movable hearths, or braziers, properly called foculi, were frequently used. - Smith, 1873.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Follis
Two inflated skins, constituting a pair of bellows. The following woodcut is taken from an ancient lamp, and represents a pair of bellows like those we now employ. - Smith, 1873.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Gathering of Greeks
A group of ancient Greek around a stone table.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Grecian Sculpture
A sculpture constructed by an ancient Greek artist.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Grecian Tomb
An ancient tomb constructed by the Greeks.