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A 19th-century engraving of talaria. The Talaria of Mercury (Latin: tālāria) or The Winged Sandals of Hermes (Ancient Greek: πτηνοπέδῑλος, ptēnopédilos or πτερόεντα πέδιλα, pteróenta pédila) are winged sandals, a symbol of the Greek messenger god Hermes (Roman equivalent Mercury).
The Nike Fixing her Sandal (Ancient Greek: Νίκη Σανδαλίζουσα, romanized: Níkē Sandalízousa), also known as Nike Taking off her Sandal or Nike Sandalbinder, [2] is an ancient marble relief depicting Nike, the ancient Greek goddess of victory, in the process of fixing or removing the sandal of her right foot. [3]
Walter Burkert believes that Eileithyia is the Greek goddess of birth and that her name is pure-Greek. [2] However the relation with the Greek prefix ἐλεύθ is uncertain, because the prefix appears in some Pre-Greek toponyms like Ἐλευθέρνα . Hyginus describes Eleutheria as a daughter of Zeus and Hera. [3]
Barefoot sandals, footwear with the appearance of sandals but lacking a sole. Birkenstock sandals, a comfortable and trendy sandal made from cork. Caligae, a heavy-soled classical Roman military shoe or sandal for marching, worn by all ranks up to and including centurion; Carbatina, open footwear worn in ancient Greece, Italy and the Middle East
Hermes Fastening his Sandal, early Imperial Roman marble copy of a Lysippan bronze (Louvre Museum). The sculptures of Hermes Fastening his Sandal, which exist in several versions, are all Roman marble copies of a lost Greek bronze original in the manner of Lysippos, dating to the fourth century BCE.
Police in Greece said Wednesday they were investigating how an ancient Greek statue came to be dumped in a black plastic bag near garbage cans in the northern city of Thessaloniki.
Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the reams of rolled-up papyrus were discovered in a mansion in Herculaneum — an ancient Roman town near Pompeii — in the mid-18th century.
A comedic actor in socci [1]. A soccus (pl. socci) or sýkkhos (Ancient Greek: σύκχος, pl. sýkkhoi), sometimes given in translation as a slipper, was a loosely fitting slip-on shoe [2] in Ancient Greece and Rome with a leather sole and separate leather, bound without the use of hobnails.
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