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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Plaustrum
A cart or wagon. It had commonly two wheels, but sometimes four, and it was then called the plaustrum majus. Besides the wheels and axle the plaustrum consisted of a strong pole (temo), to the hinder part of which was fastened a table of...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Pnyx
Shows the bema, or platform, from which orators addressed the assembled citizens.-Webster, 1913
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Porch Maidens
Porch of the Maidens (Caryatides) - Morey, 1903
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Poseidon Temple
Temple of Poseidon at Paestum. - The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1910
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Priam
This illustration shows the Death of Priam, by Benvenuto.
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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: Pyxis
A casket, a jewel-box. Quintilian produces this term as an example of catachresis, because it properly denoted that which was made of box, but was applied to things of similar form and use made of any other material. In fact, the caskets...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Race Course
The race course at Sparta.-Colby, 1899
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Retis
A net. In hunting it was usual to extend nets in a curved line of considerable length, so as in part to suround a space into which the beasts of chase were driven through the opening left on one side. The range of nets was flanked by...
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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: Rondache
A buckler, or small round shield.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Scene From Ancient Greece
A scene from ancient Greece, possibly from a vase.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Statue of Phocion
A more graceful mode of wearing the palla was to attach it by means of a brooch, and allow it to hang down from the shoulders, as in the following cut, representing the statue of Phocion in the Vatican. - Anthon, 1891
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Temple of Aegina
The western pediment of the Temple of Aegina. -D'Anvers, 1895
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Temple of Asklepios
The temple of Asklepios.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Temple of Neptune
Paestum, the Greek Poseidonia, was a colony of Sybaris. The malarial atmosphere of the place led to its desertion in the ninth century of our era. Hence the buildings there were not used as quarries for later structures. The so-called...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: The Discus Thrower
Also known as Discobolus. The Discus Thrower is a famous, ancient bronze statue that demonstrates a man participating in an ancient sport.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: The Mound at Marathon
Near the southern extremity of the plain of Marathon rises a conical mound, 30 feet high. it covers the remains of the 192 Greeks who fell in the battle. Excavations undertaken in 1890-1891 disclosed ashes, human bones and fragments of...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: The Olympieum
The Olympieum in Athens, Greece.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Theater of Dionysus
One of the earliest open-air theaters in Athens, Greece.
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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: Tomb of Atreus
The Tomb of Atreus also known as the Treasury of Atreus is a tomb located in Mycenae, Greece built between 1250 and 1300 B.C. The face of the tomb consists of columns and has a triangle above the doorway. The tomb has an interior that is...
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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: Treasury of Atreus Doorway
The Treasury of Atreus or Tomb of Agamemnon is an impressive "tholos" tomb at Mycenae, Greece (on the Panagitsa Hill) constructed around 1250 BCE. The lintel stone above the doorway weighs 120 tons. The tomb was used for an unknown...