. 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 . Victory in ivory. She held a spear in her hand;and at her feet lay a buckler and a dragon, supposed tobe Erichthonius. The Sphinx was represented on themiddle of her helmet, with a griffin on each side. Thestatue was thirty-nine feet high, and forty talents of gold ANCIENT GREEK BACCHANT COSTUM
. 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 . Victory in ivory. She held a spear in her hand;and at her feet lay a buckler and a dragon, supposed tobe Erichthonius. The Sphinx was represented on themiddle of her helmet, with a griffin on each side. Thestatue was thirty-nine feet high, and forty talents of gold ANCIENT GREEK BACCHANT COSTUME. 65 were employed on it. We learn from Plutarch that thebattle with the Amazons was represented by Phidias onAthenes shield; amongst the figures he introduced hisown likenesSj as a bald-headed old man taking up a greatstone with both hands, and a highly finished effigy ofPericles fighting with an Amazon. The last was con-trived with so much art, that the hand lifting the spearpartly covered the face, and seemed to be intended toconceal the likeness, which was yet very striking. Forthus introducing modern likenesses into, and as hisenemies said falsifying, the historical exploits of Theseus,Phidias was thrown into prison, where he died a naturaldeath, though some say he was taken off by Fig. 29. The Dress of description of Greek female costume would scarcely E 66 ANCIENT GREEK FEMALE COSTUME. be complete without some reference to tlie dress that wasworn in the Bacchic festivals. The following extractsindicate its chief peculiarities :— (Edlpus. Go then where stands the form of Bacchus unapproachedon the mountains of the Msenades. Antigone. To whom I formerly, clad in the skin of the Thebanfawn, danced the sacred step of Semele on the mountains. Eurif. Phcenician Virgins. 0 Thebes, thou nurse of Semele, crown thyself with ivy, flourish,flourish with the verdant yew bearing sweet fruit, and be ye crownedin honour of Bacchus with branches of oak or pine, a
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