. 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 . esaved, crowded round this man, and piercing him withthe clasps of their garments, each asked him where herown husband was ? Thus he died. This action of thewomen seemed to the Athenians more dreadful than thedisaster itself; however, as they had no other way ofpunishing the women, they compell
. 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 . esaved, crowded round this man, and piercing him withthe clasps of their garments, each asked him where herown husband was ? Thus he died. This action of thewomen seemed to the Athenians more dreadful than thedisaster itself; however, as they had no other way ofpunishing the women, they compelled them to changetheir Doric costume for the Ionian. For before that timethe wives of the Athenians wore the Dorian dress, whichnearly resembles the Corinthian; they changed it, there-fore, for a linen tunic, that they might not use clasps. 16 ANCIENT GREEK FEMALE COSTUME. Yet if we follow the truths this garment is not originallyIonian but Carian, for the whole ancient Greciaa dressof the women was the same as that which we now callDorian. In consequence of this event, it became cus-tomary with both the Argives and the ^gineta3 to dothis: to make their clasps one-half larger than themeasure before established, and that the women shouldchiefly dedicate clasps in the temple of these deities ; and. Fig. 6. Lycian Dresses from the Xanthus Sculplures.(Probably the same as the Carian Dress.) to bring no other Attic article within the temple, noteven a pitcher; but a law was made that they shoulddrink there in future from vessels of their own , from that time the wives of the Argives and-^ginetge, on account of their quarrel with the Athenians,continued even to my time to wear clasps larger thanformerly. Owing to the warmth of the climate^ and the good SIMPLICITY OF ANCIENT GEEEK COSTUME. 17 taste of tlie Greeks^ superfluous or tiglit articles of dresswere not used. Though more fully clad in raost parts ofGreece than in Sparta, the costume of the young girlsand wom
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