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 67
arm would bepassed under the hide,and would raise it, toge-ther with the shield, asis shown in a marble statue of Minerva (Athene), pre-served in the museum at Naples, which, from its styleof art, may be reckoned among the most ancient in exist-ence (fig. 28. See also plate QQ). Other statues of… … Fig. 23. THE ^GIS OF ATHENE. Go shoulder^ so as to pass round the body under the leftarm/—Anthons Notes to Homer (see plate 70). By a figure of speech, Homer uses the term gegis todenote not only the goats skin, which it properly signified,but, together with it, the shield to which it belonged.By…
Costume -- Greece · Women -- Greece
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