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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Horse Race
The horse-race. - Smith, 1882
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Hurling the Javelin
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: Hymen
Hymen had been called to bless with his presence the nuptials of Orpheus with Eurydice; but though he attended, he brought no happy omens with him. -Bulfinch, 1897
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Isocrates
Isocrates was the son of a prosperous flute-maker; he was born at Athens B.C. 436, and lived till 338. He represents the excellence of that species of oratory which gives the highest place to artistic form and finish, and regards the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Laterna
In later Greek, a lantern. Two bronze lanterns, constructed with nicety and skill, have been found in the ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeii. One of them is represented in the annexed woodcut. Its form is cylindrical. Within is a bronze...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Laying Dead
Laying out of the Dead - Morey, 1903
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Lesson Poets
A Lesson in the Poets - Morey, 1903
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Libra
A balance, a pair of scales. The principal parts of this instrument were: 1. The beam. 2. The two scales, called in Latin lances. The beam was made without a tongue, being held by a ring or other appendage, fixed in the centre. The...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Lion Gate at Mycenae
The main entrance through the circuit wall was made grand by the best known feature of Mycenae, the Lion Gate, through which passed a stepped ramp leading past circle A and up to the palace. The Lion Gate was built in the form of a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Litmus
This instrument was long, and curved at the end. From the similarity of form the original staff received the same appelation. - Anthon, 1891
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Man With Ax
Who brandishing aloft the ax of doom, That just has laid one victim at her feet, Looks round her for that other, without whom, The banquet of revenge were incomplete. - The Delphian Society, 1913
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Marathon Monument
Mound raised as a monument to the fallen Greeks at Marathon. -Breasted, 1914
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Marathon Soldier
Soldier of Marathon - Morey, 1903
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Mensa
The simplest kind of table was a round one with three legs. It is shown in the drinking scene painted on the wall of a wine shop at Pompeii, and is represented in the annexed woodcut. Tables, however, must usually have had four legs. For...
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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