. 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 . girdle. The goddess Diana (Artemis)is frequently shown with her chiton tucked up, so thatshe might follow the chase with greater freedom. Plates58 and 59 represent her with the chiton in its normalstate; plates 55, 56, 57 show the-shortened chiton. The Spartan women wore the Dorianchiton, which
. 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 . girdle. The goddess Diana (Artemis)is frequently shown with her chiton tucked up, so thatshe might follow the chase with greater freedom. Plates58 and 59 represent her with the chiton in its normalstate; plates 55, 56, 57 show the-shortened chiton. The Spartan women wore the Dorianchiton, which was short-skirted andsimply made. It had a slit at bothsides for the arms, and was fastenedby clasps or buttons over both shouldeiS{see fig. 7); it was also made like thee^toyLtt? (exomis), used by workmen,fishermen^ and sailors, whose occupa-tions required that the right arm shouldnot be encumbered—in this it wasfastened over the left shoulder (fig. 5). The earlier form of the long chiton{X^iTcov ttoSt/jot;?), which gives the effectof a bib hanging over the breast,may be best understood by taking two pieces of cloth,each about one-half longer than the height of the bodyto the shoulders; let three-fourths of the superfluous halffall over in front, place the one piece at the back, and the B 2. 20 ANCIENT GREEK FEMALE COSTUME.
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