. 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 . WITH EXPLANATORY LETTERPRESS, AND DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES FROM THE WORKS OF HOMER, HESIOD. HERODOTUS, .ESCHYLUS, EURIPIDES, ARISTOPHANES, THEOCRITUS, XENOPHOX. LUCIAN, AND OTHER GREEK AUTHORS, .V SELECTED BY J: MOYR SMITH. EoitKou :SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVLNGTON, CROWN RUILDINGS, 188, F
. 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 . WITH EXPLANATORY LETTERPRESS, AND DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES FROM THE WORKS OF HOMER, HESIOD. HERODOTUS, .ESCHYLUS, EURIPIDES, ARISTOPHANES, THEOCRITUS, XENOPHOX. LUCIAN, AND OTHER GREEK AUTHORS, .V SELECTED BY J: MOYR SMITH. EoitKou :SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVLNGTON, CROWN RUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET. /-. [A// rii^hts reserved.] ^ /A \ LONDON:TRINTED 13T GILBEKT AND EITINGTOX, 1I5IITED, ST. Johns square. // W/^ 0 PBEFACE. A GOOD many people of fair culture, if asked tlieir opinionof Greek costume, would say tliat correct Greek costumeseemed to consist chiefly of a pair of sandals for tlie feet,and a ribbon for the hair. In some of the most popularand best known works of Greek art there is even less dressthan this. The Venus de Medici has not even a pair ofsandals. The statues called the Theseus, the Discobulus,the Laocoon are as bare of clothing, and though the ApolloBelvidere is furnished with a cloak, he does not use it toenshroud his limbs. The popular belief that ancient
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