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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Victory Coin Over Pyrrhus
Roman coin struck to commemorate the victory over Pyrrhus and his elephants.
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Italian Landscape With the Ruins of a Roman Bridge and Aqueduct
An image of "Italian Landscape with the Ruins of a Roman Bridge and Aqueduct", created by Jan Asselynz (Oil on canvas, 67 x 82 cm).
University of Missouri
Famous Trials: The Trial of Gaius Verres: An Account (79 Bc)
The records of the trial of Gaius (sometimes spelled Caius) Verres reveal--far better than any other extant source--the corruption of the last years of the Roman Republic. Through a series of orations and witnesses, Verres's prosecutor,...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Franks Casket
Franks Casket features scenes from Roman, Jewish, Christian and Germanic tradition. When it came to light in the nineteenth century, this magnificent rectangular casket was being used as a family workbox at Auzon, France. Some time...
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Khan Academy: Anglo Saxon England
In the fifth century C.E., people from tribes called Angles, Saxons and Jutes left their homelands in northern Europe to look for a new home. They knew that the Romans had recently left the green land of Britain unguarded, so they sailed...
Princeton University
Princeton University: The Art Museum
The Art Museum at Princeton University has a permanent collection ranging over time from ancient to contemporary and from the Mediterranean to Western Europe, China, Latin America and the U.S. Greek and Roman antiquities and Roman...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: A Roman Freight Ship
This ship lies besides the wharf at Ostia. In the afterpart of the vessel is a cabin with two windows. Notice the figure of Victory on the top of the single mast and the decoration of the mainsail with the wolf and twins. The ship is...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: A Roman Legionary
From a monument of the imperial age. The soldier wears a metal helmet, a leather doublet with shoulder-pieces, a metal-plated belt, and a sword hanging from a strap thrown over the left shoulder. His left hand holds a large shield, his...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: A Roman Litter
The litter consists of an ordinary couch with four posts and a pair of posts. Curtains fastened to the rod above the canopy shielded the occupant from observation.-Webster, 1913
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: A Roman Slinger
A projectile weapon used to throw a blunt projectile.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: A Roman Standard Bearer
From a gravestone of the first century A.D. The standard consists of a spear crowned with a wreath, below which is a crossbar bearing pendant acorns. Then follow, in order, a metal disk. Jupiter's eagle standing on a thunderbolt, a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Early Roman Bar Money
A bar of copper marked with the figure of a bull. Dates from the fourth century B.C.-Webster, 1913
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Etc: Clip Art Etc: Landing of the Romans in Britain
After a successful summer campaign, [Caesar] made his way to the coast and cross over into Britain. He then withdrew into his winter-quarters in Gaul, but in the following year returned into the island, defeated the British Celts under...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Roman Battle
In the Brave Days of Old. -Bulfinch, 1897
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Roman Camp
Plots of land reserved for use as a military defensive position.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Roman Vase
Marble hydria from Pompeii.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Roman Centurio
A Centurio was a low-to-middle ranking officer in charge of a "century", ideally 100 men but ranging higher and lower than that number.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Roman Die
A small cubed marked on its faces with spots numbering from one to six, used in gaming from being thrown from a box or hand.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Roman Soldiers
The distinction between rank and unit type doesn't seem to have been as precise as in a modern-day army, in which a soldier has a separate pay-grade, job description, and assigned unit.
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Ovid's Metamorphoses: Introduction and Commentary
This resource provides a nice summary of the "Metamorphoses" by Ovid along with commentary and art influenced by the poem. Discusses the political situation of the time and how it works its way into the poem. Provides good analysis of...
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Livius: Pliny the Elder, Natural History
Part of a comprehensive site giving biographical information on Pliny. It takes a look at the famous historian as a child, an officer, scholar, and a procurator, this page is about his encyclopedia, Natural History. Several of the books,...
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Buzzle.com: Historyplex: An Introduction to the Culture and Traditions of Spain
Read about the history of Spain including other groups that lived there in the past, the Golden Age, the reign of Napoleon, the Spanish Civil War, and the establishment of democracy. Also looks at the makeup of the Spanish population,...