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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Petasus
The Petasus differed from the pileus or simple skull-cap in having a wide brim: the etymology of the word, expressed the distinctive shape of these hats. It was preferred to the skull-cap as a protection from the sun. - Smith, 1873
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Phaetra
A quiver, was principally made of hide or leather, and was adorned with gold, painting, and braiding. it had a lid, and was suspended from the right shoulder by a belt passing over the breast and behind the back. Its most common position...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Phidias in His Study
Phidias was the chief glory of the administration of Pericles. To him was committed the work of making the Parthenon sublime. From his studio went forth trophy after trophy to adorn the crowning glory of the Acropolis.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Phidon Coin
Coin of Phidon - Morey, 1903
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Philip
Philip II. (Coin) - Morey, 1903
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Philip of Macedon
Philip became king of Macedonia in 359 B.C. He was viewed as he best educated man of his time.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Platted Hair
The mode of platting the hair, and then fastening it with a pin on a needle, is shown in the annexed figure of a female head, taken from a marble group which was found at Apt, in the south of France. - Anthon, 1891
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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: Race Course
The race course at Sparta.-Colby, 1899
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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: 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 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: 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: Maps Etc: Europe, 1904
"Europe - Greece has the honor of being in the van of European civilization and power, but in the seventh century before Christ a rival sprang up in Italy, which in the course of time attained such vigor that Greece at last was humbled...