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 28
erGreek literature. The eVSy/AaTa(endymata), or garments worn next theskin, or completing ^n indoor costume, were supplemented,by the Trepi.^Xtj/xara (periblemata), to which order cloaksand outside wraps belong. Some of these resembled theOman togas, but they were worn in Greece in a freer,nd more… … Fig. 11. 24 ANCIENT GREEK FEMALE COSTUME. On the back, the dress was pulled towards the right side^,so as to cover it completely up to the right shoulder, orat least to the armpit, in which latter case the rightshoulder remained uncovered. Finally, the himation wasagain thrown over the left…
Costume -- Greece · Women -- Greece
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