. 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 . representedas such in the more ancient monuments relative to thoseevents, the later works of art, nevertheless, even wherethey profess to represent personages belonging to thoseearly ages, usually array them in the more unconfinedhabiliments of more recent times. In the male figureseven of such
. 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 . representedas such in the more ancient monuments relative to thoseevents, the later works of art, nevertheless, even wherethey profess to represent personages belonging to thoseearly ages, usually array them in the more unconfinedhabiliments of more recent times. In the male figureseven of such primeval heroes as a Hercules, an ,and a Theseus, we generally find the long formal ringletsof the heroic ages omitted for the short crops of thehistoric periods. I shall now enter into a somewhat greater detailwith regard to the different pieces of which was composedthe Grecian attire. The principal vestment both of men and of women,that which was worn next the skin, and which conse-quently, whenever more than one different garment wasworn over the other, was undermost, bore in Greek thename of )(iTOiv, in Latin that of tunica. It was of alight tissue; in earliest times made of wool, in laterperiods of flax, and last of all, of flax mixed with silk, or 26 ANCIENT GREEK FEMALE even pure silk. Its body was in general composed oftwo square pieces sewed together on thesides. Sometimes it remained sleeveless,only offered openings for the bare armsto pass through, and was confined overthe shoulders by means of clasps or but-tons; at other times it had very longand wide sleeves; and these were notunfrequently, as in the figures of Minervaand the bearded Bacchus, gathered upunder the armpits, so as still to leavethe arms in a great measure bare. Mostusually, however, the body of the tunicbranched out intoa pair of tight sleeves, reaching to near the elbow, which in the most ancient dresses were close, with a broad stiff band running down the seams, and in more mode
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