. 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 . largest mantle her rich wardrobes prized for art, and labourd oer with gold —{II. vi.), is to be offered up to the goddess by the Trojans. Woven gold work is also referred to in the followingpassage :—^After this, they said, that this king descendedalive into the place which the Greek
. 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 . largest mantle her rich wardrobes prized for art, and labourd oer with gold —{II. vi.), is to be offered up to the goddess by the Trojans. Woven gold work is also referred to in the followingpassage :—^After this, they said, that this king descendedalive into the place which the Greeks call Hades, andthere played at dice with Ceres, and sometimes won, andother times lost, and that he came up again and broughtwith him as a present from her a napkin of gold.—Herodotus, ii. 122. 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 material ofthe celebrated dresses woven in the isle of Amorgos,which were similar to our fine muslin and cambrics, con-sisted of a very fine kind of flax. Silk was known in 40 ANCIENT GREEK FEMALE 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 dresses,when clinging closely to the skin, al-lowed the colour of flesh and veins tobe seen through them. In one important matter Greek ladiesdiffered from modern ladies of all Fig. 17. nations. Black was never used bythe Greeks as ordinary dress, but solely as the mark ofgrief and mourning. It was the colour of death and theraiment of the Furies. To go in a black dress to anentertainment would be rega
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