Charicles : or, Illustrations of the private life of the ancient Greeks : with notes and excursuses . ion, and the lower classes would frequently content themselveswith such a garment. See Isaeus, de Dica^og. Her. p. ^4 ; 116, 1131; Fed. 850. K E 2 420 THE DRESS. [Excursus T. The boys at Athens used, in early times, to wear the simplechiton, but towards the period of the Peloponnesian war it be-came usual for them to wear an upper garment also. See 964, 987. The boys of Sparta, as above-mentioned, wereallowed the chiton only till their twelfth year; afterwards th
Charicles : or, Illustrations of the private life of the ancient Greeks : with notes and excursuses . ion, and the lower classes would frequently content themselveswith such a garment. See Isaeus, de Dica^og. Her. p. ^4 ; 116, 1131; Fed. 850. K E 2 420 THE DRESS. [Excursus T. The boys at Athens used, in early times, to wear the simplechiton, but towards the period of the Peloponnesian war it be-came usual for them to wear an upper garment also. See 964, 987. The boys of Sparta, as above-mentioned, wereallowed the chiton only till their twelfth year; afterwards thetribon was their sole article of dress, in winter as well as de Mepahl. Laced. 2, 4: Kai uvri yt rod ip-aTioLQ hia-dpuTTTsadai, ivöfXKTEv tvi ifjariu) ^l erovc Trpoffedi^KrOai, vofiiCijjvovTU) Kai irpog 4^^X^ ^^^ T^poQ OdXin] afieircv ay Trapaantvaaacr-6ai. Plutarch, Dec. Or. Vit. iv. p. 379: l^anuv tv Kati* alro ilhopEl TOV \tljjiiotOQ Kat TOV titpOVQ. After the Athenian lad had attained to the age of an ephebus,his proper dress was the chlamys, a garment entirely different from. Scene XI.] THE DRESS. 421 the himation. It originally came from Thessaly or Macedon,whence it seems lo have been spread over all Greece. Poll. vii. 4G :T(tQ ^E OtTTaXtKCLQ ^Xajjiv^ag GerraXtfCct TTTEjia Cjro^ai^ov^ kul h-TediTTaKifT^tQatXeyoy TO y\ayLvlo(i>opoviiiv. The clearest descrip-tion of its form is in Plutarch, Alex. 26, where its shape is com-pared to that of the city o£ Alexandria: tcvtcXorepi) köXttov r)yoy,ov Tt)i itTug Trepi(f)ipeiai^ Evdelai ßaneuj üenrep cnro Kpaaivihiovelg ayjifia ^Xa/xy3oe, vireXa^ßarov ii itrov arvydyovcrai to is also represented very frequently in vase-paintings, and otheraitistic remains. See the accompanying wood-cut, which repre-sents Oedipus before the Sphinx, and is taken from Tischbein,Engrav. ii. 24. The chlamys which he wears appears to be ofan oblong quadrangular shape. It has a purple border, and tasselsat the four corn
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