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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Metal Tools
Early Metal Implements - Morey, 1903
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Mitra
An eastern head-dress, sometimes spoken of as a characteristic of the Phrygians. It was also the name of the head-band or head-dress worn by Greek women, which was made of close materials. It must be distinguished from the reticulum,...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Modern Parthenon
The Athenians, on their return to Attica, after the defeat of the Persians, found their city ruined and their country desolate. - Smith, 1882
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Monument of a Greek Solider
A monument of Athenian foot soldier, found near Marathon.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Mycenae
The Lion Gate" at Mycenae" - Morey, 1903
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Nebris
A Nebris is a fawn's skin, worn originally by hunters and others, as an appropriate part of their dress, and afterwards attributed to Bacchus, and consequently assumed by his votaries in the processions and ceremonies which they observed...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Needles and Pins
Needles and pins, chiefly aken from originals in bronze, vary in length from an inch and a half to about eight inches. - Anthon, 1891
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Olympia Buildings
Buildings and Environs of Olympia (Restoration) - Morey, 1903
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Oscillum
A diminutive through osculum from os, meaning a little face," was the term applied to faces or heads of Bacchus, which were suspended in the vineyards to be turned in every direction by the wind. Whichsoever way they looked they were...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Ox Sacrifice
Represents an ox adorned for sacrifice. - Anthon, 1891
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Paeonius
Victory of Paeonius (Restored) - Morey, 1903
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Palium
The English cloak, though commonly adopted as the translation of these terms, conveys no accurate conception of the form, material, or use of that which they denoted. The article designated by them was always a rectangular piece of...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Panathenaic Procession
From the Frieze of the Parthenon. - Smith, 1882
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Parthenon
The Parthenon is a celebrated temple at Athens, consecrated to Athena or Minerva, the protectress of the city, built on an elevated rock near the Acropolis, and has always been regarded as the most exquisite and perfect example of...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Parthenon Frieze
Bass-reliefs from the frieze of the Parthenon.
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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
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Patera
A round plate or dish. The paterae of the most common kind were small plates of the common red earthenware, on which an ornamental pattern was drawn, and which were sometimes entirely black. The more valuable paterae were metallic, being...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Peplum
An outer garment, strictly worn by females, and thus corresponding to the himation or pallium, the outer garment worn by men. Like all other pieces of cloth used for the Amictus, it was often fastened by means of a brooch. It was,...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Peplus
The peplus was a shawl which commonly formed part of the dress of females. It was often fastened by meeans ofa brooch, but was frequently worn without one, in the manner represented in the annexed cut, which is copied from one of Sir W....
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Pera
A wallet, made of leather, worn suspended at the side by rustics and by travellers to carry their provisions, and adopted in imitation of them by the Cynic philosophers. This woodcut is the representation of a goat-herd with his staff...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Pericles
An influential and important leader of Athens during the Athenian Golden Age.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Pero
This was a low boot of untanned hide, worn by ploughman and shepards. - Anthon, 1891
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Persian Embassador
The fate of the Persian Embassadors at Sparta.