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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Pugio
A dagger; a two-edged knife, commonly of bronze, with the handle in many cases variously ornamented or enriched. - Smith, 1873
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Retis
In this woodcut, two men are carrying the net home after the chase, and hold in their hands two of the forked stakes for supporting it. - Smith, 1873
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Tomb at Myra
The second class, those cut in the rock, have either sculptured facades, or a kind of frame standing out from the rock. -D'Anvers, 1895
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Victors at the Olympic Games
From a very remote period, the Greeks had been accustomed to engage in contests of strength and agility during their times of festivity, and also at the funerals of distinguised persons. Iphitus conceived the idea of establishing a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Egg and Dart Motive
The evolution of the egg-and-dart motive.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Lectica
Lectica was a kind of couch or litter, in which persons, in a lying position, were carried from one place to another. They were used for carrying the dead as well as the living. The Greek lectica consisted of a bed or mattress, and a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Malleus
A hammer, a mallet. In the hands of the farmer the mallet of wood served to break down the clods and to pulverize them. The butcher used it in slaying cattle, by striking the head, and we often read of it as used by the smith upon the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Ocrea
A greave, a leggin. A pair of greaves was one of the six articles of armour which formed the complete equipment of a Greek warrior, and likewise of a Roman soldier as fixed by Servius Tullius. They were made of various metals, with a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Ocrea
A greave, a leggin. A pair of greaves was one of the six articles of armour which formed the complete equipment of a Greek warrior, and likewise of a Roman soldier as fixed by Servius Tullius. They were made of various metals, with a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Lituus
Probably an Etruscan word signifying crooked. 1. The crooked staff borne by the augurs, with which they divided the expanse of heaven, when viewed with reference to divination, into regions. It is very frequently exhibited upon works of...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Acropolis
The citadel of a Grecian city, usually the site of the original settlement, and situated on an eminence commanding the surrounding country.-Whitney, 1902
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Aeginetan Sculpture
Herakles, from the eastern pediment of the temple of Athena.-Whitney, 1902
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Athenian Youth on Horses
An illustration of a group of Athenian youth on horses.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Athens
The Temple of Theseus, the Areopagus, and the Acropolis of Athens. -Breasted, 1914
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Chlamys
The chlamys was a species of cloak or scarf, oblong instead of square, its length being generally about twice its breadth. - Anthon, 1891
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Citadel
Plan of the Citadel of Mycenae
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Colossus at Rhodes
Colossus at Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the World
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Comedy Masks
While Greek tragedt grew farther and farther away from the humor and burlesque so characteristic of the old satyr dances and songs, comedy arose to incorporate within itself much of this early spirit. The comedies supplied...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Dionysus Seat
Seat of the Priest of Dionysus - Morey, 1903
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Greaves and Shield
Represents the interior view of a bronze shield and a pair of greaves. These greaves are made right and left. - Anthon, 1891
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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: 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: Man With Ax
Who brandishing aloft the ax of doom, That just has laid one victim at her feet, Looks round her for that other, without whom, The banquet of revenge were incomplete. - The Delphian Society, 1913
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Patera
The patera was a broad and comparatively shallow bowl used for libations, and also for drinking out of at banquets. The following cut gives a front and side view of a bronze patera found at Pompeii. - Anthon, 1891