Playersmath
I have designed a specific playermath for each civilization, you can download them from this section. I have associated each civilization to each playermath using colors, the main reason to not include the names in each playermath is because perhaps you would prefer to use only one (your favourite for example) for all civilizations , be free for that.
The playermaths backgrounds represents famous ancient greek scenes and most of them have been obtained from ceramics and greek archeological stuff. The game sequence has been obtained from the playermaths developed by www.civproject.net people. Many thanks to them because of their incredible work. DOWNLOAD RAR FILE or one by one below.
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Achilles and Ajax playing board game, painted by Exekias (Potter and vase painter who was a master of the black-figure style. The best known surviving work by him is the depiction of the heroes Ajax and Achilles playing a board game ). 540 BC, now in Vatican Museum. |
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Olimpic games where a good nexus point for the different greek colonies overseas with the greek reality in Hellas. We find ceramics like this representing the different competitions. |
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Roundel from Ecbatana, probably dating to the reign of king (404-358BC) Artaxerxes II. This snarling winged lion worked in gold demonstrate the exceptional skill of Achaemenid goldsmiths. It was the attachment to a garment or textile. |
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Athena was the patron deity of Athens. In Mycenaean age and during Troy war she was the protector goddess of Odysseus/Ulysses.This scene belongs to Homero’s Odyssey and represents Athena heading for Ithaca to advise Telemachus to seek in Pylos and Sparta news of his father. |
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This scene belongs to Chigi vase, a corinthian pottery (620 BC) found in Etruria (central Italy). The scene here is the earliest known depiction of the hoplite phalanx and gives the first evidence of organized troop-lines/columns in battle. |
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Odysseus was the son of Sisyphus, king of Corinth. Sisyphus had ravished Autolycus daughter, Anticleia, as revenge for Autolycus theft of his cattle. This scene belongs also to Homero’s Odyssey and represents when Nausikaa met Odysseus at the shore and leads him to the palace of her father Alcinoos. |
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This ceramic illustrates Dionysus birth. Dionysus was rescued from his mother’s womb (the human woman Semele) and implanted into Zeus’ thigh, from where he was eventually born. He was one of the most important gods for thracians. |
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In 1811 AC french sculptor David d’Angers made a bas-relief illustrating the death of Epaminondas, the theban general and statesman. He was one of the best greek general during classical period and his chief achievement was the final overthrow of Sparta’s predominance in the Peloponnese. |
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Delos island became sacred to Apollo (as his birth place) and both European and Asian Ionians convened there each summer to worship at the temple of the Delian Apollo. The illustration depicts the nymph Lampetia complaining to Apollo because Ulysses and his men have stolen and eaten a flock of sheep from Apollo?s sacred island. |
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The cult of Zeus at Dodona in Epirus centered around a sacred oak. When the Odyssey was composed, divination was done there by barefoot priests called Selloi, who lay on the ground and observed the rustling of the leaves and branches (Od. 14.326-7). |
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The palace at Knossos (about 1700-1400 bc) on the island of Crete was the home of the mural known as the Toreador Fresco. Remarkable for its energetic and graceful line quality, the mural depicts the moment in which a young man has just grasped the bull?s horns and leaped over its back. |