See also:

• TRIPOD (Gr. rpiTovr, Lat. tripus)

TRIPOD (Gr. rpiTovr, See also:

• LAT

Lat. tripus)  , in classical antiquities, any " three-footed " utensil or See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article of See also:

• FURNITURE (from " furnish," Fr. fournir)

furniture . The name is specially applied to the following: (I) A seat or table with three legs . (2) A stand for holding the caldron used for boiling See also:

• WATER

water or cooking See also:

• MEAT

meat; when caldron and stand were made in one piece, the name was given to the See also:

• COMPLETE

Complete apparatus . (3) A sacrificial See also:

• TRIPOD (Gr. rpiTovr, Lat. tripus)

tripod, or See also:

• ALTAR (Lat. altare, from alias, high; some ancient etymological guesses are recorded by St Isidore of Seville in Etymologiae xv. 4)

altar, the most famous of which was the Delphic tripod, on which the Pythian priestess took her seat to deliver the oracles of the See also:

• GOD

god, the seat being formed by a circular slab on the See also:

• TOP (cf. Dan. top, Ger. Topf, also meaning pot)

top, on which a See also:

• BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch of See also:

• LAUREL

laurel was deposited when it was unoccupied by the priestess . Another well-known tripod was the " Plataean," made from a tenth See also:

• PART

part of the spoils taken from the See also:

• PERSIAN
• PERSIAN, SYRIAN, EGYPTIAN AND TURKISH

Persian See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army after the See also:

• BATTLE

battle of See also:

• PLATAEA, or PLATAEAE

Plataea . This consisted of a See also:

• GOLDEN

golden See also:

• BASIN, or BASON (the older form bacin is found in many of the Romanic languages, from the Late Lat. baccinus or bacchinus, probably derived from bacca, a bowl)
• BASIN, THOMAS (1412—1491)

basin, sup-ported by a See also:

• BRONZE

bronze See also:

• SERPENT (Lat. serpens, creeping, from serpere; cf. "reptile " from repere, Gr.4 ml-eta)

serpent with three heads (or three serpents intertwined), with a See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list of the states that had taken part in the See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war inscribed on the coils of the serpent . The golden bowl was carried off by the Phocians during the Sacred War; the stand was removed by the See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor See also:

• CONSTANTINE

Constantine to See also:

• CONSTANTINOPLE
• CONSTANTINOPLE, COUNCILS OF

Constantinople, where it is still to be seen in the Atmeidan (See also:

• HIPPODROME (Gr. irrbSpo,uos, from irros, horse, and Spoµos, racecourse)

hippodrome), but in a damaged See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition, the heads of the serpents having disappeared . The inscription, however, has been almost entirely restored (see Frazer on See also:

• PAUSANIAS

Pausanias, v . 299 seq.) . Such tripods were usually of bronze and had three " ears " (rings which served as handles) . They also frequently had a central upright as support in addition to the three legs . Tripods are frequently mentioned in See also:

• HOMER, WINSLOW (1836-191o)

Homer as prizes in athletic See also:

• GAMES, CLASSICAL

games and as complimentary gifts, and in later times, highly decorated and bearing See also:

• INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

inscriptions, they served the same purpose .

They were also used as dedicatory offerings to the gods, and in the dramatic contests at the See also:

• DIONYSIA

Dionysia the victorious choregus (a wealthy See also:

• CITIZEN (a form corrupted in Eng., apparently by analogy with " denizen," from O. Fr. citeain, mod. Fr. citoyen)

citizen who See also:

• BORE

bore the expense of equipping and training the See also:

• CHORUS (Gr. xopbs)Z

chorus) received a See also:

• CROWN

crown and a tripod, which he either dedicated to some god or set upon the top of amarble structure erected in the See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of a small circular See also:

• TEMPLE
• TEMPLE, FREDERICK (1821-1902)
• TEMPLE, RICHARD
• TEMPLE, SIR RICHARD, BART
• TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM, BART

temple in a See also:

• STREET
• STREET, GEORGE EDMUND (1824-1881)

street in See also:

• ATHENS
• ATHENS ['AN vat, Athenae, modem colloquial Greek `Ath va]

Athens, called the " street of tripods," from the large number of memorials of this See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind . One of these, the " See also:

• MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument of Lysicrates," erected by him to commemorate his victory in a dramatic contest in 335 B.C. is still in existence (see Frazer, ii . 207) . See C . 0 . See also:

• MULLER, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
• MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
• MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
• MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
• MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
• MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
• MULLER, KARL OTFRIED (1797-1840)
• MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
• MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
• MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)

Muller, De tripode delphico (1820); F . Wieseler, Ueber den delphischen Dreifuss (1871); E . Reisch, Griechische Weihgeschenke (1890), and his article " Dreifuss " in Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopadie der classischen Alterlumswzssenschaft, v, pt . 2 (1905) .