. 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 . asure intouching her naked shoulder with yours.^^ Good God !replied Socrates. 1 will tell you truly how I was punishedfor it for five days after; I thought I felt in my shouldera certain tickling pain, as if I had been bit by gnats orpricked with nettles ; and I must confess, too, that duringal
. 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 . asure intouching her naked shoulder with yours.^^ Good God !replied Socrates. 1 will tell you truly how I was punishedfor it for five days after; I thought I felt in my shouldera certain tickling pain, as if I had been bit by gnats orpricked with nettles ; and I must confess, too, that duringall that time I felt a certain hitherto unknown pain at myheart. 22 ANCIENT GREEK FEMALE COSTUME. The chief alterations of varying fashion applied to thearrangement of the diploidion, -which reached either tothe part under the bosom, or was prolonged as far as thehipsj its front and back parts might either be claspedtogether across the shoulders^ or the two rims or edgesmight be pulled across the upper arm as far as the elbow,and fastened in several places by means of buttons oragraffes, so that the naked arm became visible in theintervals, by means of which the sleeveless chiton receivedthe appearance of one with sleeves. Where the diploidionwas detached from the chiton, it formed a kind of hand-. some cape; which, however, in its shape strictly re-sembled the diploidion proper. This cape was most VARIETIES OP THE DIPLOIDION. 23 likely called by tlie Greeks aiJiire^oviov. Its shape wasconsiderably modified by fashion, taking sometimes theform of a close-fitting jacket (fig. 10), at others (whenthe sides remained open) that of a kind of shawl, the endsI of which sometimes equalled in\ length the chiton itself (plates; 1, 5, 6, figs. 11,22). In the latterlease the ampechonion was natu-jrally three times as long as itiwas wide. In antique pictureswomen sometimes wear a shorterfchiton over the y^iTOiv iroSyjprji;.\A great many varieties of dresslare distinguishable in the vasejpaint
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