Greek Art. Examples of the flora of Magna Græcia. Painted antefixæ. Terra cotta ornaments. Paintings on vases. Fret-work or meanders.
Greek Art. Conventional Flora, Fretwork, and Meanders.
Category: Ancient Greece
Ancient Greek costume and fashion history. Military, nobility, peasants, decoration, culture
Greek Military. Two warriors in armor of iron, bronze, and leather.
The two warriors in the picture are wearing or carrying most of the types of war material used by the Greeks for over a thousand years.
Minoan or Mycenaean Age. Costumes of ancient cretan people.
The Cretan costume of Antiquity. Long ago on the island of Crete there lived a group of people called Cretans and belonged to Minoan or Mycenaean Age.
Greek-Roman furniture. Throne chair, Bisellium, Sella castrensis.
Various seating furniture and its use from the Greek-Roman history. Suppedaneum, Throne chair, Bisellium, Klismos, Diphros, Sella castrensis
Greek-Roman art. Mosaics, painted bas-reliefs and wall paintings.
Greek-Roman art. Mosaics, painted bas-reliefs and wall paintings found in Herculaneum and Pompeii. Ornaments from panels, friezes, borders and mural paintings.
How Greek women dressed. The female dress of the classical period.
The Greek female dress of the classical period. The Greek dress is indeed one of the typical products of the Hellenic genius. It exemplifies better than almost anything else the capacity of this gifted people for producing the most beautiful effects by the simplest means.
A quadriga. Greek-Roman Gods. The ancient greek-roman culture.
A quadriga. The shape of the car. Sitting muse after a relief. Five gods, Juno, Jupiter, Venus, Mars, Diana.
The Greek military of antiquity. Spartans, Hoplites, Peltasts.
Greek military. War costumes and weapons. The Spartans, Hoplites, Peltasts. The leaders, the soldiers, the shields. Defensive weapons. Attacking weapons.
Lyras and flutes. About the musical instruments of ancient Greece.
History of ancient Greek musical instruments. The syrinx or pan flute, the harp, lyras and flutes. The lyre and the flute were the most popular musical instruments of the Greeks.
Antiquity. Greek women’s costumes. Endymata and epiblemata.
Greece. Women’s costumes. The main piece of clothing was the chiton, in Roman times the tunica, a long, folded piece of textile that was wrapped around the body