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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: An Athenian Inscription
A decree of the Council and Assembly dating from about 450 B.C.-Webster, 1913
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Anacreon
Though Anacreon has been famous as the poet of wine and love, few geniune fragments of his songs have come down to us. Those which pass under his name belong to his Greek imitators in later times. Specimens are given here in relief after...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Ancient Athens
The mosted noted of the orations of Isocrates is the Panathenaicus or Panegyric of Athens, a work on which he spent ten years, and in which he uses all the resources of his art to extol Athens and magnify the benefits she conferred o...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Ancient Bows
Represents two forms of the bow; the upper, the Scythian or Parthian bow enstrung, agreeing with the form of that now used by the Tartars, the lower, the ordinary bow, like the one mentioned in the text. - Anthon, 1891
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Ancient Clasps
The following cut will show specimens of ancient clasps. - Anthon, 1891
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Ancient Corinth
An image depicting the city of ancient Corinth.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Ancient Necklaces
The following, also, are specimens of other ancient necklances. The first, small golden lizards alternate with drops. The second one was found at St. Agatha, near Naples, in the sepulchre of a Greek lady. It has 71 pendants. The third,...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Aplustria
Greek aplustria, or stern ornament.
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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: Ara
An alter. Ara was a general term denoting any structure elevated aove the ground, and used to receive upon it offerings made to the gods. Altare, probably contracted from alta ara, was properly restricted to the larger, higher, and more...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Ara
An alter. Ara was a general term denoting any structure elevated aove the ground, and used to receive upon it offerings made to the gods. Altare, probably contracted from alta ara, was properly restricted to the larger, higher, and more...
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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: 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: Aries
The battering-ram, was used to batter down the walls of besieged cities. It consisted of a large beam, made of the trunk of a tree, especially of a fir or an ash. To one end was fastened a mass of bronze or iron, which resembled in its...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Aristophanes
A stature of Aristophanes, who was a prolific and commonly celebrated playwright of comedy. He is also known as the Father of Comedy.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Arma
Homer describes in various passages an entire suit of armour, and we observe that it consisted of the same portions which were used by the Greek soldiers ever after. Moreover, the order of putting them on is always the same. The...
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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: Astor to Philip's Right Eye
It was during the siege of Methone that Philip had the misfortune to lose on of his eyes. A random arrow discharged from the rampart fell square in the king's face and destroyed one-half of his sight. When the arrow-head was drawn away,...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Athena and Argo
Athena (Minerva) superintending the building of the Argo. - Smith, 1882
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Athenian Monument
Monument commemorating the triumph of an Athenian citizen in music, Lysicrates. -Breasted, 1914
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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: Athenian Youth on Horses
An illustration of a group of Athenian youth on horses.