. 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 . ods with four oershading plumes. In another place we read :— Pallas meanwhile her various veil flowers adornd, with art immortal radiant robe her sacred fingers woveFloats in rich waves, and spreads the court of The dreadful a3gis, Joves immortal shield,Blazed on
. 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 . ods with four oershading plumes. In another place we read :— Pallas meanwhile her various veil flowers adornd, with art immortal radiant robe her sacred fingers woveFloats in rich waves, and spreads the court of The dreadful a3gis, Joves immortal shield,Blazed on her arm and lightend all the field;Round the vast orb a hundred serpents rolld,Formd the bright fringe, and seemd to burn in gold. Pope, II. ii. Instead of serpents it would^ per-haps, be more proper to read, for Trj<i eKUTov Ovcravot,, , From this a hundred tassels,, all golden, hang waving in the air, all well twisted, and each of the value of a hundred oxen {eKar6fA,^oLo<;).—See Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Eegis, properly speaking, was the hide of the goat Amal- thea, the animal that had suckled Jupiter. It was in strictness pecu-liar to Jove, hut was worn on different occasions by both Apollo and Athene. The skins of various quadrupeds having been used by Fig. ()2 ANCIENT GREEK FEMALE COSTUME. the most ancient inhabitants of Greece for clothing anddefence^ we need not wonder that the goat^s skin wasemployed in the same manner; and the particular appli-cation of it which we have now to consider will beunderstood from the fact that the shields of the ancientGreeks were in part supported by a belt or strap passing-over the right shoulder,and when not elevatedwith the shield, descend-ing transversely to theleft hip. In order that agoat^s skin might servethis purpose, two of itslegs would probably betied over the right shoul-der of the wearer, theother extremity beingfastened to the inside ofthe shield. In combat,the left arm would bepassed under
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