. 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 . 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 thyrs
. 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 . 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 ? Bac. You should hold it in your right hand, and raise it at thesame time with your right foot. The thyrsus was a spear, the head of which was struckthrough a pine cone. After the Bacchante had dulyhonoured Bacchus in the orgies, shegave her dress as an ofifering to thegod in the temple :— Porphyris of Cnidus has for thyself, Diony-sus (Bacchus), placed on high before thy chapelthese ornaments of her beauty and madness,namely, the chaplets on her head, and the spearwith a double pine-cone, and the ankle-band,with which she acted the Bacchant freely,when after uniting to her bosom the fawn-skindecked with ivy, she frequented the orgiesof Dionysus.— Fig. 32 Favourite Colours of usual colour of hair among the FAVOUEITE COLOURS OP HAIE. 69 Greeks being dark, light-coloured hair was consideredmore beautiful. The colours of hair which seem to have been most infavour with the early Greeks were golden, auburn, andred. Helen is golden, or red, or auburn haired; Hylasand Paris have the same coloured hair; Adonis has areddish beard on his lips. Achilles has golden or ruddyhair. When disguised among the daughters of Lyco-medes, he was called Pyrrha by his female companion^ onaccount of his golden or red hair. Pyrrhus is themasculine form of the same name, and signifies fiery red,ruddy, or rosy. It is a delicate, but misleading euphemis
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