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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 71

An illustration from 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, leaf 71
a shout to wake their bodies fromsleep, when she heard the lowingof the horned oxen; but they (theBacchantes) cast ofi refreshingsleep from their eyes, started up-right, a marvel to behold for theirelegance, young, old, and virginsyet unyoked. And first they letloose their hair over their… … ANCIENT GREEK BACCHANT COSTUME, 67 or the wild whelps of wolves, gave them white milk .... andthey put on ivy chaplets and garlands of oak and blossoming yew;and one having taken a thyrsus, struck it against a rock, whence adewy stream of water springs out; another placed her wand on theground, and…

Costume -- Greece · Women -- Greece

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