. 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 . 46 ANCIENT GREEK FEMALE valiant and noble exploits hadtlieir effigies in it; whence menof true courage and bravery aresaid to be a^iot ireifkov, worthyto be portrayed in Athene^s sa-cred garment. The descriptionin Homers Odyssey of the dressof Odysseus (Ulysses) is probablyno poetic 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 . 46 ANCIENT GREEK FEMALE valiant and noble exploits hadtlieir effigies in it; whence menof true courage and bravery aresaid to be a^iot ireifkov, worthyto be portrayed in Athene^s sa-cred garment. The descriptionin Homers Odyssey of the dressof Odysseus (Ulysses) is probablyno poetic fiction, but the actualdescription of a not unusual dressof a chief in the heroic ages; anddoubtless the dress of the chief-tains wife would be equallyrich :— Fig. 19. A robe of military purple flowdOer all his frame; illustrious on his breastThe double-clasping gold the king the rich woof a hound, mosaic drawn,Bore on full stretch, and seized a dappled fawn :Deep in the neck his fangs indent their hold;They pant and struggle in the moving as a filmy web beneath it shoneA vest, that dazzled like a cloudless female train who round him throngd to gaze,In silent wonder sighd unwilling praise. This ornamentation of embroidery was the work ofladies of the highest rank, as we read that in answerto Odysseu
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