. 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 . Fig. 1. Dorian or Early Greek Costume. I, ANCIENT GREEK FEMALE Fig. 2. Nausicaa and her Maids.—Od, vi. Ancient its prime was much larger than themodern kingdom. Besides Attica and the peninsuhx ofthe Morea, or Peloponnesus, with its districts of Achaia^Elis, Arcadia, Argoli


. 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 . Fig. 1. Dorian or Early Greek Costume. I, ANCIENT GREEK FEMALE Fig. 2. Nausicaa and her Maids.—Od, vi. Ancient its prime was much larger than themodern kingdom. Besides Attica and the peninsuhx ofthe Morea, or Peloponnesus, with its districts of Achaia^Elis, Arcadia, Argolis, Laconia, and Messenia, it includeda great portion of country lying to the north of theGulf of Corinth, which was inhabited by the Acarnians,^tolians, Locrians, Phocians, Boeotians, Thessalians, andother tribes. At one time it extended to and includedMacedonia and the countries lying to the north of the-^o^ean Sea. To this extensive conntrv were to be added O ^ ANCIENT GREEK FEMALE COSTUME. tlie islands of Crete, Rhodes, Euboea, and the numerousothers lying to the east and west of the Peloponnesus, aswell as those of Lesbos, Samos, and Chios, that adjoinedAsia Minor. These together formed what might becalled Greece proper; but Greece also possessed thecolonies of Ionia, ^olis, Lycia, Cyprus, and other terri-tories of Asia Minor on the east, and Sicily and Souther


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