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 33
this bib,^ froma square piece of stuff doubled,seems to have become a meresingle narrow slip, only hangingdown a very short way over thebreasts, and allowing the girdle,even when fixed as high as pos-sible, to appear underneath. The peplum constituted theoutermost covering of the hodj.Among the… … THE PEPLOS OE PEPLOMA. 20 very long and ample, so as to admit of being woundtwice round the body—first under the arms, and thesecond time over the shoulders—it assumed the nameof diplax. In rainy or cold weather it was drawn overthe head. At other times this peculiar mode of wearingit was…
Costume -- Greece · Women -- Greece
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