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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Gubernaculum
A rudder. Before the invention of the rudder, which Pliny ascribes to Tiphys, the pilot of the ship Argo, vessels were both propelled and guided by oars alone. This circumstance may account for the form of the ancient rudder, as well as...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Halteres
Halteres were certain masses of stone or metal, which were used in the gymnastic exercises of the Greeks and Romans. Persons who practised leaping frequently performed their exercises with halteres in both hands; but they were also...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Lectica
Lectica was a kind of couch or litter, in which persons, in a lying position, were carried from one place to another. They were used for carrying the dead as well as the living. The Greek lectica consisted of a bed or mattress, and a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Lectisternium
Sacrifices being of the nature of feasts, the Greeks and Romans, on occasion of extraordinary solemnities, placed images of the gods reclining on couches, with tables and viands before them, as if they were really partaking of the things...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Lorica
A cuirass. The cuirass was worn by the heavy-armed infantry both among the Greeks and Romans. The soldiers commonly wore cuirasses made of flexble bands of steel, or cuirasses of chain mail, but those of generals and officers usually...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Lorica
A cuirass. The cuirass was worn by the heavy-armed infantry both among the Greeks and Romans. The soldiers commonly wore cuirasses made of flexble bands of steel, or cuirasses of chain mail, but those of generals and officers usually...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Malleus
A hammer, a mallet. In the hands of the farmer the mallet of wood served to break down the clods and to pulverize them. The butcher used it in slaying cattle, by striking the head, and we often read of it as used by the smith upon the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Marsupium
Marsupium, a purse. The purse used by the ancients was commonly a small leathern bag, and was often closed by being drawn together at the mouth. Mercury is commonly represented holding one in his hand, of which the annexed woodcut from...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus was a tomb built between 353 and 350 BC at Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, a satrap in the Persian Empire, and Artemisia II of Caria, his wife and sister. The structure was designed by...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Nudus
These words, besides denoting absolute nakedness, were applied to any one who, being without an Amictus, wore only his tunic or indutus. In this state of nudity the ancients performed the operations of ploughing, sowing and reaping. The...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Ocrea
A greave, a leggin. A pair of greaves was one of the six articles of armour which formed the complete equipment of a Greek warrior, and likewise of a Roman soldier as fixed by Servius Tullius. They were made of various metals, with a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Ocrea
A greave, a leggin. A pair of greaves was one of the six articles of armour which formed the complete equipment of a Greek warrior, and likewise of a Roman soldier as fixed by Servius Tullius. They were made of various metals, with a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Pedum
A shepherd's crook. On account of its connection with pastoral life, the crook is often seen in works of ancient art, in the hands of Pan, Satyrs, Fauns, and shepherds. It was also the usual attribute of Thalia, as the muse of pastoral...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Pelta
A small shield, Iphicrates, observing that the ancient Clipeus was cumbrous and inconvenient, introduced among the Greeks a much smaller and lighter shield, from which those who bore it took the name of peltastae. It consisted...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Periscelis
An anklet or bangle, worn by the Orientals, the Greeks, and the Roman ladies also. It decorated the leg in the same manner as the bracelet adorns the wrist and the necklace the throat. The word, however, is sometimes used in the same...
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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: 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: Victors at the Olympic Games
From a very remote period, the Greeks had been accustomed to engage in contests of strength and agility during their times of festivity, and also at the funerals of distinguised persons. Iphitus conceived the idea of establishing a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Greece Poster
A poster with important images and facts from the Heroic period (1400-1100 B.C.)
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Greece Poster
A poster with important images and facts from the period of glory (500-431 B.C.).
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Greece Poster
A poster with important images and facts from the period of decline (431-146 B.C.).
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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: Sculpture of Demosthenes
Demosthenes was a prominent Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens. His orations constitute a significant expression of contemporary Athenian intellectual prowess and provide an insight into the politics and culture of ancient...