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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: Arcus
The bow used for shooting arrows, is one of the most ancient of all weapons, but is characteristic of Asia rather than of Europe. In the Roman armies it was scarcely ever employed except by auxiliaries; and these auxiliaries, called...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Arcus
The bow used for shooting arrows, is one of the most ancient of all weapons, but is characteristic of Asia rather than of Europe. In the Roman armies it was scarcely ever employed except by auxiliaries; and these auxiliaries, called...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Calceus
A shoe or boot, anything adapted to cover and preserve the feet in walking. The use of shoes was by no means universal amount the Greeks and Romans. The Homeric heroes are represented without shoes when armed for battle. Socrates,...
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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: 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: Acropolis
Acropolis, 'the highest point of the city.' Many of the important cities of Greece and Asia Minor were protected by strongholds, so named. The A. occupied a lofty position, commanding the city and its environs; inaccessible on all sides...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Arcus
The bow used for shooting arrows, is one of the most ancient of all weapons, but is characteristic of Asia rather than of Europe. In the Roman armies it was scarcely ever employed except by auxiliaries; and these auxiliaries, called...
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Lyre
Cithara or Phorminx, from a vase in the British Museum. Best period of Greek art. -The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1903
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Pancratium
An athletic game, in which all the powers of the fighter were called into action. The pancratium was one of the games or gymnastic contests which were exhibited at all the great festivals of Greece; it consisted of boxing and wrestling,...
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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: 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: 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: Nudus
These words, besides denoting absolute nakedness, were applied to any one who, being without an Amictus, wore only his tunic or indutus. In this state of nudity the ancients performed the operations of ploughing, sowing and reaping. The...
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Clip Art by Phillip Martin: Greek Citizen Soldier
Cartoon drawing of a Greek soldier, with plumed helmet and spear.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Abolla
A woolen cloak which was probably only a varied form of pallium. - Anthon, 1891
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Acropolis Restored
The Acropolis of Athens Restored. - Smith, 1882
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Aegis
aegis- Varvakeion Statuette of Athena.-Whitney, 1902
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Aeneas and Ascanius
The following cut, taken from one of Sir W. Hamilton's fictile vases, and representing Aeneas followed by Ascanius, and carrying off his father Anchises, who holds the sceptre in his right hand, shows its form as worn by kinds. - Anthon,...