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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: 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: Colossus at Rhodes
Statue of the Greek god Helios. It is currently considered to be one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was one of the tallest statues during its time, standing at over 30 meters (107 feet).
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Delphi
An ancient Greek town. In Greek mythology, the most important oracle resided at Delphi.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Egyptian Band
That the Egyptians paid great attention to the study of music and had arrived at a very accurate knowledge of the art, is evident from the instruments which they used. - Goodrich, 1844
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Egyptian Harp
That the Egyptians paid great attention to the study of music and had arrived at a very accurate knowledge of the art, is evident from the instruments which they used. - Goodrich, 1844
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Egyptian Musician
That the Egyptians paid great attention to the study of music and had arrived at a very accurate knowledge of the art, is evident from the instruments which they used. - Goodrich, 1844
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Fax
A torch. In the annexed woodcut, the female figure is copied from a fictile vase. The winged figure on the left hand, asleep and leaning on a torch, is from a funeral monument at Rome. The other winged figure represents Cupid as Lethaus...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Fibula
A brooch, consisting of a pin, and of a curved portion furnished with a hook. The curved portion was sometimes a circular ring or disc, the pin passing across its centre and sometimes an arc, the pin being as the chord, of the arc. The...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Follis
Two inflated skins, constituting a pair of bellows. The following woodcut is taken from an ancient lamp, and represents a pair of bellows like those we now employ. - Smith, 1873.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Gathering of Greeks
A group of ancient Greek around a stone table.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Grecian Sculpture
A sculpture constructed by an ancient Greek artist.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Grecian Tomb
An ancient tomb constructed by the Greeks.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Sistrum
A sacred instrument in ancient Egypt used in dances and religious ceremonies.
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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...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: A Puzzling Parallax
Did you know that ancient astronomers could measure the distance to other stars? They could also distinguish between stars and planets. How could they do that without modern technology of telescopes? See if you can discover the link...
PBS
Pbs Nova: Secrets of the Parthenon: Scenes From a Marble Quarry
Learn about the tools and technologies that Greek stonemasons used to cut and shape blocks of marble destined for the Parthenon. Also learn about how the stone was transported to the building site and set into place.