. The life of the Greeks and Romans. wards to the knee, andabove the girdle up to the neck, asis seen in the chiton worn by thespring goddess Opora, in a vase-painting ( Collection des Vasesgr. de M. Lamberg, PI. 65). Thewhole chiton is sometimes coveredwith star or dice patterns, parti-cularly on vases of the archaicstyle. The vase-painters of thedecaying period chiefly representPhrygian dresses with goldfringes and sumptuous embroi-deries of palmetto and meander-ing patterns, such as were wornby the luxurious South-ItalianGreeks. Such a sumptuous dress is worn by Medea (Fig. 221) in apicture
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. wards to the knee, andabove the girdle up to the neck, asis seen in the chiton worn by thespring goddess Opora, in a vase-painting ( Collection des Vasesgr. de M. Lamberg, PI. 65). Thewhole chiton is sometimes coveredwith star or dice patterns, parti-cularly on vases of the archaicstyle. The vase-painters of thedecaying period chiefly representPhrygian dresses with goldfringes and sumptuous embroi-deries of palmetto and meander-ing patterns, such as were wornby the luxurious South-ItalianGreeks. Such a sumptuous dress is worn by Medea (Fig. 221) in apicture of the death of Talos on an Apulian amphora in the Jattacollection at Ruvo. In the same picture the chitones of Kastorand Polydeukes, and those of the Argonautai, are covered withpalmetto embroideries, the edges at the bottom showing mythologicalscenes on a dark ground. We also call to mind the rich peploioffered at high festivals to adorn the holy images, and also of thehimation, fifteen yards long and richly ornamented, which was. 170 MALE HEAD-CO VERINGS. offered by the Sybarite Alkirnenes to the Lakinian Hera in hertemple near Kroton, and afterwards sold to the Carthaginians for120 talents by the elder Dionysios. Plastic art in its noblesimplicity has disdained to imitate these ornaments, which itintroduces only in rare cases to adorn certain parts of the upper garment of a statue of Artemis in the MuseoBorbonico, at Naples, shows a border imitating embroidery ; andthe archaic statue of Pallas in the museum of Dresden wears apeplos, imitated from the celebrated Panathenaic peplos, coveredwith scenes from the gigantomachy (see Miiller, Denkmaler deralten Kunst, I. Taf. X., Nos. 36, 38). 43. In the cities Greeks walked mostly bareheaded, owingmost likely to the more plentiful hair of southern nations, which,moreover, was cultivated by the Greeks with particular , hunters, and such artificers as were particularlyexposed to the sun, used light covering
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