Classical Antiquity. Footwear. Fashions and Customs. Calceus, Ocrea, Caliga, Campagus, Crepida, Solea, Pero, Ceremonial shoes, Runner’s boots, Lace-up shoe.
Shoes of antiquity. Sandals, closed footwear of the ancient world.
Category: Ancient Greece
Ancient Greek costume and fashion history. Military, nobility, peasants, decoration, culture
The ancient Greek city of Posidonia or Paestum in Magna Graecia.
Paestum is a greek ruined site recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Campania region in the province of Salerno in Italy.
Ancient specimens of Roman and Grecian Glass. Antiquities & Works of Art.
Antiquities and Works of Art. Ancient specimens of Roman and Grecian Mosaic Glass. Amphora, Cruche, or Œnochœ, small Bottle, ribbed Cup.
Dancing in ancient Greece. Cubistic, spheristic and stage dances.
The Greek dance usually took the form of those slow measured movements which Simonides described as “silent poetry”.
This picture shows two figures clad in what is known as Ionic dress.
The Ionic dress is more ornamental and richer than the Doric. This style became popular later in Greek history and was more complicated.
Decoration, taken from various periods of Greek Art.
Decoration, taken from various periods of Greek Art. Specimens of Antefix, Meanders, mosaic-work. Frieze and corona ornaments.
The transition from Doric to Ionic dress style in late ancient Greece.
Ionic dress. Compared to modern dress, it was an easy, comfortable, simple style of clothing.
Greek doric. Costumes during the so-called Golden Age of Greece.
You will notice, from the Doric column in front of which they are standing, how closely the simple, open, unelaborated costume blends with the earlier Greek architecture.
The Homeric costume of early Greeks. Dress of ancient Greece.
The costume worn by early Greeks was the simplest type of dress civilized man has ever fashioned.
Greek Art. Conventional Flora, Fretwork, and Meanders.
Greek Art. Examples of the flora of Magna Græcia. Painted antefixæ. Terra cotta ornaments. Paintings on vases. Fret-work or meanders.
