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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Erechtheum Restored
The building of the new Erechtheum was not commenced till the Parthenon and Propylea were finished, and probably not before the year preceding the breaking out of the Peloponnesian war. Its progress was no doubt delayed by that event,...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Euripides
The next evolution is presented in Euripides. He is less ideal than his predeccesor, but truer to nature. His drama is more of a reality. He takes his stand in the midst of human life as it is. His language is the language of the people....
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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: Foot Race
The Olympic games were of greater efficacy than the Amphictyonic Council in promoting the spirit of union among the various branches of the Greek race, and in keeping alive a feeling of their common origin. They were open to all persons...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Fort Euryalus
View of the Fort Euryalus at Syracuse. - Smith, 1882
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Founding of Argos
Navigation for the purpose of commerce, and the art of writing, are said to have originated with the Phoenicians. On their arrival in Greece, Inachus and his friends founded the city of Argos, at the head of what is now called the Gulf...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Fusus
The spindle, was always, when in use, accompanied by the distaff, as an indispensable part of the same apparatus. The wool, flax, or other material, haing been prepared for spinning, was rolled into a ball, which was however,...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Galea
A helmet; a casque. The helmet was originally made of skin or leather, whence is supposed to have arisen its appellation, meaning properly a helmet of dog-skin, but applied to caps or helmets made of the hide of other animals, and even...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Gate of Mycenae
Gate of Mycenae, the City of Agamemnon.-Colby, 1899
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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: Gem
Engraved Gem in the British Museum. - Encyclopedia Britannica, 1893
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Gem
Engraved Gem in the British Museum. - Encyclopedia Britannica, 1893
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Gem
Engraved Gem in the British Museum. - Encyclopedia Britannica, 1893
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Gem
Engraved Gem in the British Museum. - Encyclopedia Britannica, 1893
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Gem
Engraved Gem in the British Museum. - Encyclopedia Britannica, 1893
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Gladiators
This illustration shows various types of gladiators, each type with with his specific weapons attributed to him. Gladiators were swordsmen whose profession was to fight for the public amusement. Gladiators are said to have been borrowed...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Gold Intaglios
Gold Intaglios from Mycenae - Morey, 1903
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Gold Rings
Designs on Gold Rings from Mycenae - 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: Grecian Armor
Armor used by the ancient Greeks in battle.