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 45
2. Wool was used principally by the Dorians, and linenby the lonians, but a chiton of linen and a himation ofwool were not uncommon. Homer refers to— The maids in soft cymars of linen dressd.—II. xviii. For womens dresses, besides wool and linen, byssos,probably a kind of cotton, was used. The… … Asia at a very early period, but it wasnot introduced into Greece till a laterdate. Sometimes the woven silk wasbrought, at others silk in its raw state,which was spun into fine transparentsilk gauze, more than equal in trans-parency to the amorgina, or cambricof Amorgos. These diaphanous…
Costume -- Greece · Women -- Greece
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