Ancient Greek female costume : illustrated by one hundred and twelve plates and numerous smaller illustrations ; with descriptive letterpress and descriptive passages from the works of Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Euripides, Aristophanes, Theocritus, Xenophon, Lucian, and other Greek authors (1882)
Smith, J. Moyr, 1839-1912 · London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington · leaf 27
tothe part under the bosom, or was prolonged as far as thehipsj its front and back parts might either be claspedtogether across the shoulders^ or the two rims or edgesmight be pulled across the upper arm as far as the elbow,and fastened in several places by means of buttons oragraffes, so that the… … some cape; which, however, in its shape strictly re-sembled the diploidion proper. This cape was most VARIETIES OP THE DIPLOIDION. 23 likely called by tlie Greeks aiJiire^oviov. Its shape wasconsiderably modified by fashion, taking sometimes theform of a close-fitting jacket (fig. 10), at others…
Costume -- Greece · Women -- Greece
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