. 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 . ANCIENT GREEK BACCHANT COSTUME, 67 or the wild whelps of wolves, gave them white milk .... andthey put on ivy chaplets and garlands of oak and blossoming yew;and one having taken a thyrsus, struck it against a rock, whence adewy stream of water springs out; another placed her wand on theground,
. 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 . ANCIENT GREEK BACCHANT COSTUME, 67 or the wild whelps of wolves, gave them white milk .... andthey put on ivy chaplets and garlands of oak and blossoming yew;and one having taken a thyrsus, struck it against a rock, whence adewy stream of water springs out; another placed her wand on theground, and then the god sent up a spring of wine. In the conversation between Bacclius and Pentheus we. Pig. 31. learn, perhaps, more particularly what were the dis-tinguishing points of the Bacchic female dress :— Bac. Put on then linen garments on your What then, shall 1 be reckoned among women, being aman? . . Bac. I will spread your hair at length on your head. E 2 68 ANCIENT GREEK COSTUME. Pen. What is the next point of my equipment ? Sac. A garment down to your feet; and you shall have a turban on3our head. Pen. Shall you put anything else on me besides this ? Bac. A thyrsus in your hand, and the dappled hide of a deer. . .But this lock of hair is out of place, not as I dressed it beneath theturban. Pen. Look, do you arrange it, for we depend on you. Bac. And your girdle is loosened, and the fringes of your garmentsdo not extend regularly round your legs. Pen. They seem so to me, too, about the right foot at least; buton this side the robe sits well along the leg. . But shall I be morelike a Bacchante holding the thyrsus in my right hand or in this ? Ba
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