. 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 . was worn with the doubled partupwards, and the edge or border downwards next thezone or girdle. It was suspended round the chest andback in such a way that its centre came under the leftarm, and its two ends hung down loose under the rightarm; and according as the piece was square or oblong,the
. 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 . was worn with the doubled partupwards, and the edge or border downwards next thezone or girdle. It was suspended round the chest andback in such a way that its centre came under the leftarm, and its two ends hung down loose under the rightarm; and according as the piece was square or oblong,these ends either only reached to the hips or descendedto the ankles. The whole was secured by means of twoclasps or buttons, which fastenedtogether the fore and hind partover each shoulder. In later times this bib,^ froma square piece of stuff doubled,seems to have become a meresingle narrow slip, only hangingdown a very short way over thebreasts, and allowing the girdle,even when fixed as high as pos-sible, to appear underneath. The peplum constituted theoutermost covering of the the Greeks it was wornin common by both sexes, butwas chiefly reserved for occasionsof ceremony or of public appear-*^^ ^* ance, and as well in its texture as in its shape, seemed to answer to our shawl. When. THE PEPLOS OE PEPLOMA. 20 very long and ample, so as to admit of being woundtwice round the body—first under the arms, and thesecond time over the shoulders—it assumed the nameof diplax. In rainy or cold weather it was drawn overthe head. At other times this peculiar mode of wearingit was expressive of humility or of grief, and was adoptedby men and women when in mourning, or when perform-ing sacred rites; on both which accounts it was thus wornby Agamemnon when going to sacrifice his daughter. This peplum was never fastened on by means ofclasps or buttons, but only prevented from slipping offthrough the intricacy of its own involutions. Endlesswere the combinations which these exhi
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