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 73
cone. After the Bacchante had dulyhonoured Bacchus in the orgies, shegave her dress as an ofifering to thegod in the temple :— Porphyris of Cnidus has for thyself, Diony-sus (Bacchus), placed on high before thy chapelthese ornaments of her beauty and madness,namely, the chaplets on her head, and… … Fig. 32 Favourite Colours of Hair.The usual colour of hair among the FAVOUEITE COLOURS OP HAIE. 69 Greeks being dark, light-coloured hair was consideredmore beautiful. The colours of hair which seem to have been most infavour with the early Greeks were golden, auburn, andred. Helen is golden, or…
Costume -- Greece · Women -- Greece
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