. The life of the Greeks and Romans. nians to have these folding-stools carried after them by CHAIRS. slaves. ISTo less frequent were the diphroi with four perpen-dicular legs, which could naturally not be folded. Both forms ofthe diphros are found on ancient monuments in many 185, a, a diphros okladias, is taken from the marblerelief of a grave at Krissa. The two folding-stools, Fig. 185, band c, are from pictures on vases ; the legs appear gracefullybent and neatly carved. The second form of the diphros isshown by Fig. 185, d, and Fig. 186, c. The first is taken from thefrieze
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. nians to have these folding-stools carried after them by CHAIRS. slaves. ISTo less frequent were the diphroi with four perpen-dicular legs, which could naturally not be folded. Both forms ofthe diphros are found on ancient monuments in many 185, a, a diphros okladias, is taken from the marblerelief of a grave at Krissa. The two folding-stools, Fig. 185, band c, are from pictures on vases ; the legs appear gracefullybent and neatly carved. The second form of the diphros isshown by Fig. 185, d, and Fig. 186, c. The first is taken from thefrieze of the Parthenon, where similar stools are carried on theirheads by the wives and daughters of the metoikoi who, at thePanathenea, had to submit to the custom of stool-carrying(hi(f)po(pope?v) : the second illustration is derived from a marblerelief at Athens; it is remarkable by its neatly bent legs and bythe turned knobs above the sitting-board, perhaps destined tofasten the cushion placed thereon. If to this solid diphros we add. Fig. 185. a back, we come to the second species of chairs, called kKkt/ulos,kXlvtyjp, and kKioIv] (see Fig. 185, e, f). They are like ourordinary drawing-room chairs, but for the upper part of theback; which is bent semicirculaiiy, and therefore much morecomfortable than our straight-backed chairs. The legs bentoutward gracefully are in perfect harmony. Under Opovos we comprise all larger chairs with a straightback and low arms; the former reaches either to the middle ofthe back, or up to the head, of the sitting person. The thronoi inthe temples were the seats of the gods; in private houses theywere reserved as seats of honour for the master and his thronoi in private houses were mostly made of heavywood; those in the temples, the ekklesiai, dikasteria, bouleu-teria, the stadion, and hippodrome, reserved for the judges andleaders of the people, were generally wrought in marble. Thethronoi were in different parts richly decorated with ca
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