. 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 . obably only lead toconfusion were the reader to find the familiar Circe,Cyclades, Sicily, and Thrace under the forms of Kirke,Kuklades, Sikania or Sikelia, and Thrakia. Moreover,those who have attempted to reform our spelling in thisrespect have usually carried out their improvements in avery i
. 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 . obably only lead toconfusion were the reader to find the familiar Circe,Cyclades, Sicily, and Thrace under the forms of Kirke,Kuklades, Sikania or Sikelia, and Thrakia. Moreover,those who have attempted to reform our spelling in thisrespect have usually carried out their improvements in avery imperfect way. In some instances that I have seen,one half of a name has the Greek form, and the other halfis in the familiar Latinized form. Nor do I think thatthose people who spell Pheidias for Phidias and Phoibosfor Phoebus will do Greek any great service by this displayof scholarship while the ridiculous English style of pro-nouncing Greek is retained; the popular pronunciationof Phoebus is much nearer the Greek original than thepopular English pronunciation of Phoibos would , however, the Latin name is so altered as to beentirely different from the Greek, I sometimes use theGreek name in preference to the Latin one, as Aphroditefor Venus, Athene for Minerva, and Odysseus for Fig. 1. Dorian or Early Greek Costume. I, ANCIENT GREEK FEMALE COSTUME.
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