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Title: Charicles : or, Illustrations of the private life of the ancient Greeks : with notes and excursuses
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Becker, W. A. (Wilhelm Adolf), 1796-1846 Metcalfe, Frederick, 1815-1885
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Publisher: London : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
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p(pvf)eui E)^oyTa irpoU^iEi ov ^Xajxvi. Polluxrightly calls it ro Itttth^oi-, for it is the proper riding coat, andwas worn on journeys. Müller, Dorians, ii. p. 278. Other names,su(*h as yXalva^ ^Xoiic, &c. refer not so much to the form as tothe material which was adopted. The dress of the women was in its main features the same asthat of the men, though distinguished by various additions. Care,however, must be taken to distinguish between the two chitons,the Doric and the Ionic. The Doric was a very simple woollenshift, perhaps consisting only of two short pieces of cloth, sewedtogether up to the breast (at least on one side), while the partscovering the breast and back were fastened over the shoulders,and thus formed arm-holes. The o-j^toroc of the virgins, alludedto in the Excursus on The Gymnasia, p. 298, is only one species.For this garment see the accompanying figure of IS ike, which iscopied from Stackelberg, Grab, der Hell. pi. 60. The ayjLaTog 422 THE DßESS. (Excursus J
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which she wears can only be called a mixture of Doric and Ionic.It should however be remarked that artists represented the longerchiton with the diploidion, open in the same manner as in thefigure, so that the proper Doric frxifrruc is only to be seen on theAmazons, Marbles in the Brit. )\(us. iv. IG; and in the Mus.Barb. iv. 21 The Ionic chiton, on the other hand, was an ample shift, fallingin many folds down to the feet, and with broad sleeves, whichwere vnriable in length. It was of linen or of similar material.Cf. Ilerodot. v. 87 : t(i>6pEoy yap ct) irpo tov at roj) ^A6r)iuio)tyvia~it:ic errHifra Aiopica rrj Kopitdla TrapaTrXrjnuoTarrjv. fierißaX-\()i uju £t TOV Xirtuu tcidajyuj iia ct) 7rep()rr)(7i jin) ^pitüvrai. inri^

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