| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - A custom once begun, and by so powerful a deity as the Goddess Athena, would not long want imitators; consequently representations of fighting men, especially on Greek vases, the oldest-known European pictures, show some object or other depicted upon breastplate or shield, but always one that was considered effective as a protector. 272 As the number of protectors came to be more numerous, so the
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