. 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 . be ye crownedin honour of Bacchus with branches of oak or pine, and adorn yourgarments of spotted deer-skin with fleeces of white-haired sheep, andsport in holy games ... in which Bacchus rejoices, pleased on themountains, when after the running dance, he falls upon the plain,having a sacred ga
. 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 . be ye crownedin honour of Bacchus with branches of oak or pine, and adorn yourgarments of spotted deer-skin with fleeces of white-haired sheep, andsport in holy games ... in which Bacchus rejoices, pleased on themountains, when after the running dance, he falls upon the plain,having a sacred garment of deer-skin ... to twine the thyrsi, and to put on the skins of deer, andto crown the head with ivybranches. Chorus in Eurip. Bacchce. But thy mother, standing inthe midst of the Bacchse, raiseda shout to wake their bodies fromsleep, when she heard the lowingof the horned oxen; but they (theBacchantes) cast ofi refreshingsleep from their eyes, started up-right, a marvel to behold for theirelegance, young, old, and virginsyet unyoked. And first they letloose their hair over their shoul-ders, and arranged their deer-skins,as many as had had the fasteningof their knots unloosed, and theygirded the dappled hides with ser-pents licking their jaws—andFig. 30. some having in their arms a 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
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