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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Auletris
Auletris.- Performer on the double flute or diaulos. (From a Greek red-figured vase; 5th century B.C.)-Whitney, 1902.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Bacchic Procession
An illustration of a bacchic procession.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Banquet of Damocles
Image depicting a mythical moral anecdote, consisting of two morals. The first that regardless of who wears the crown, they are bound to have threats sent their way. The second is that the threat of terrorism is much greater than the act...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Battering Ram
The battering ram was a large beam, made of the trunk of a tree, and having a mass of bronze or iron fastened to one end, and resembling a ram's head. This shape, as well as its name, was given to the engine in question, on account of...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Boxing
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: Bracae
Trowsers, pantaloons, were common to all the nations which encircled the Greek and Roman population, extending from the Indian to the Atlantic ocean, but were not worn by the Greeks and Romans themselves. Accordingly the monuments...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Bronze Figure
Bronze figure, originally applied a relief. Found at Tarentum. Apparently in the style of Lysippus. - Encyclopedia Britanica, 1893
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Bronze Statuette
Bronze statuette, from Athens. - Encyclopedia Britanica, 1893
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Calathus
A slave, belonging to the class quasillariae, is presenting her misteress with the calathus, in which the wool is kept for embroidery. - Anthon, 1891
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Calceus
A shoe or boot, anything adapted to cover and preserve the feet in walking. The use of shoes was by no means universal amount the Greeks and Romans. The Homeric heroes are represented without shoes when armed for battle. Socrates,...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Canephoros
A virgin who carried a flat circular basket at sacrifices, in which the chaplet of flowers, the knife to slay the victim, and sometimes the frankincense were deposited. The name, however, was more particularly applied to two virgins of...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Ceres
She was the mother of Proserpine and according to some phases of the myth of Bachus.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Cestus
The thongs or bands of leather, which were tied round the hands of boxers, in order to render their blows more powerful. The cestus was used by boxers in the earliest times, and is mentioned in he Iliad; but in the heroic times it...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Chariot
Arms and a chariot are here assigned to June through not properly a warlike goddess. The idea itself, of giving such appendages to Diety, seems borrowed from the habits of the heroic age. The following delineation of a chariot is from an...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Chariot Race
The chariot-race. - Smith, 1882
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Chiton
A tunic garmet usually worn by both men and women among the ancient greeks.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Chlamys
The chlamys was a species of cloak or scarf, oblong instead of square, its length being generally about twice its breadth. - Anthon, 1891
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero. - Quackenbos, 1882
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Cista
A small box or chest, in which anything might be placed, but more particularly applied to the small boxes which were carried in procession in the festivals of Ceres and Bacchus. These boxes, which were always kept closed in the public...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Citadel
Plan of the Citadel of Mycenae
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Clavis
A key. The key was used in very early times, and was probably introduced into Greece from Egypt; although Eustathius states, that in early times all fastenings were made by chains, and that keys were comparatively of a much later...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Clipeus
The large shield worn by the Greeks and Romans, which was originally of the circular form, and is said to have been first used by Proetus and Acrisius or Argos, and therefore is called clipeus Argolicus, and likened to the sun. But the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Clipeus
The large shield worn by the Greeks and Romans, which was originally of the circular form, and is said to have been first used by Proetus and Acrisius or Argos, and therefore is called clipeus Argolicus, and likened to the sun. But the...