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• Strigil — A strigil was a small, curved, metal tool used in ancient Greece and Rome to scrape dirt and sweat from the body before effective soaps became available. First perfumed oil was applied to the skin, and then it would be scraped off, along with the …   Wikipedia

• heteropteran — ▪ insect order Introduction   any member of the insect order Heteroptera, which comprises the so called true bugs. (Some authorities use the name Hemiptera; others consider both the heteropterans and the homopterans to be suborders of the… …   Universalium

• Charon's obol — Charon and Psyche (1883), a pre Raphaelite interpretation of the myth by John Roddam Spencer Stanhope Charon s obol is an allusive term for the coin placed in or on the mouth[1] of a dead person before burial. According to …   Wikipedia

• Greek terracotta figurines — Terracotta figurines are a mode of artistic and religious expression frequently found in Ancient Greece. Cheap and easily produced, these figurines abound and provide an invaluable testimony to the everyday life and religion of the Ancient Greeks …   Wikipedia

• Lošinj — Infobox Islands name = Lošinj image caption = Mali Lošinj image size = locator native name = native name link = Croatian nickname = location = Adriatic sea coordinates = coord|44|35|N|14|24|E|type:isle|display=inline,title archipelago = Cres… …   Wikipedia

• Thermae — This page is on buildings used for Roman bathing. For the activity in general, see Ancient Roman bathing. The terms balnea or thermae were the words the ancient Romans used for the buildings housing their public baths.Most Roman cities had at… …   Wikipedia

• Sophists (The) — The sophists G. B. Kerferd In the fifth century BC the term sophistēs was used in Greece as a name to designate a particular profession, that of certain travelling teachers who went from city to city giving lectures and providing instruction in a …   History of philosophy

• Danake — The Gorgon s head is a frequent numismatic icon (here with anchor on reverse) that may appear on a danake The danake or danace (Greek: δανάκη) was a small silver coin of the Persian Empire (Old Persian dânake), equivalent to the Greek obol …   Wikipedia

• Pederasty in ancient Greece — Pederastic courtship scene Athenian black figure amphora, 5th c. BC, Painter of Cambridge; Object currently in the collection of the Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, Munich, Germany. The bearded man is depicted in a traditional… …   Wikipedia

• Apoxyomenos — (the Scraper ) is one of the conventional subjects of ancient Greek votive sculpture; it represents an athlete, caught in the familiar act of scraping sweat and dust from his body with the small curved instrument that the Romans called a… …   Wikipedia

• Lysippus — /luy sip euhs/, n. fl. c360 c320 B.C., Greek sculptor. * * * or Lysippos flourished 4th century BC, Sicyon, Greece Greek sculptor. He was famous for the new and slender proportions of his figures and for their lifelike naturalism. He reportedly… …   Universalium