Panathenaea peplos, from the Parthenon frieze The Peplos Kore, colour reconstruction of statue of c. 530 BC Athena wearing a luxurious peplos, one that...
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name, peplos, is based on the popular archaic Greek gown for women. When the statue was found it was initially thought that she was wearing a peplos, although...
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chiton as opposed to the peplos after several women stabbed a messenger to death with the bronze pins characteristic of the peplos. The word chiton is derived...
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Clothing in ancient Greece (section Peplos)
shoulders, facing down, to hold the chiton or peplos in place. Fibulae were also used to pin the chiton, peplos or chlamys together.[page needed] These fibulae...
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of patterning is seen on the Peplos Kore. Historians originally believed that the Peplos Kore was wearing a regular peplos, but in fact she was wearing...
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Panathenaea young girls known as arrephoroi would carry a specially woven peplos robe to place on the wooden cult image of Athena located in the Erechtheum...
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Chalceia (section The Sacred Peplos)
There were two ways the peplos was made: it was either a smaller peplos made by women, or a larger one made by men. The smaller peplos was woven annually by...
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surface of the virion has been referred to as the "peplos". The term is derived from the Greek peplos, "a loose outer garment", "robe or cloak", or "woman['s]...
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Peplos (Greek: Πέπλος) is a town and a community of Feres municipal unit, Evros regional unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. Since the 2011 local...
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cloth. This frieze often is interpreted as the presentation of Athena's peplos, perhaps by the arrhephoroi, but debate exists regarding who the figures...
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Peplos railway station (Greek: Σιδηροδρομικός Σταθμός Πέπλος, romanized: Sidirodromikós stathmós Peplos) is a railway station that serves the town of...
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that the overfall of Athena's peplos hides most of her girdle from the front view, whereas the overfall of the peplos on Eirene has a short overfall...
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sash, or girdle might secure the waist. Peplos, Chitons The inner tunic was a peplos or chiton. The peplos was worn by women. It was usually a heavier...
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most famous examples of the archaic smile is the Kroisos Kouros, and the Peplos Kore is another. By the middle of the Archaic Period of ancient Greece (roughly...
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Hellenistic period (c. 750–30 BC). It was usually worn over a chiton and/or peplos, but was made of heavier drape and played the role of a cloak or shawl....
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not as the birth of the "Hesiodic" Pandora. The Athena wore a half-open peplos on the right side, as was the rule for female representations in the first...
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The kolpos (Greek κόλπος, breast) is the blousing of a peplos, chiton, or tunic in Ancient Greek clothing, whereby excess length of the material hangs...
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Salvation in its second season, playing the role of Alycia. "Melia Kreiling | Peplos ideas". peplosideas.com. Retrieved 2019-05-05. https://www.thewiltonmortuary...
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kingship Dress (Chiton, Chlamys, Exomis, Fustanella, Himation, Mariner's cap, Peplos, Perizoma, Tsarouchi, Vraka) Eastern Party Festivals Folklore Greek East...
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The term "peplum" (a Latin word referring to the ancient Greek garment peplos) was introduced by French film critics in the 1960s. The terms "peplum"...
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arrephoroi, a group of four young girls chosen to serve Athena each year, wove a peplos that was presented to Athena during Panathenaic Festivals. Christopher Pelling...
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entire Mediterranean world. In a Greek cultural context, this is called peplos. In a Roman cultural context, if worn by a Roman matron, it also takes the...
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example of anasyrma, it depicts a partially draped woman, raising her light peplos to uncover her hips and buttocks, and looking back and down over her shoulder...
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undergarment (worn under the jersey) for baseball teams in MLB. Chiton Clothing Peplos Shirt Sleeveless shirt Quinion, Michael. "Cardigan". World Wide Words. Retrieved...
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organised by a group of sixteen women, who were also responsible for weaving a peplos for Hera and arranging choral dances. Not much is known about the Heraea...
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of the Orphic Hymn as κροκόπεπλος (krokopeplos), "clad in saffron" (see peplos), an epithet also used for Eos, the personification of dawn. In the hymns...
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Phrasikleia Kore, c. 550 BC, Athens, National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Peplos Kore, c. 530 BC, Athens, Acropolis Museum. Frieze of the Siphnian Treasury...
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Fortuny became famous for his pleated dresses, the "Delphos" and the related "Peplos", adding a short tunic layer meant to resemble the ancient Greek apoptygma...
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notoriously short. They wore the Dorian peplos, with slit skirts which bared their thighs. The Dorian peplos was made of a heavier woolen material than...
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Clothing in the ancient world Clothing in ancient Greece Chiton (costume) Peplos Zoster (costume) Kushti worn by Zoroastrians Himiana worn by Mandaeans Lee...
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