The small terracotta figures from Tanagra almost without exception represent noble women who corresponded to the ideal of beauty and the fashion of that time.
Greece. Women after the figures from Tanagra and Asia Minor.
Tag: Clothing in ancient Greece
Clothing in ancient Greece was generally very simple in character, often consisting of a single rectangle of fabric, not sewn, but wrapped around the body, with almost identical styles in both men’s and women’s clothing.
Ancient Greece. Table manners. Meals, Banquet, Table Equipment.
Banquet with hetaera and dancers. Drinking vessels: Rhyton. Drinking horns. The Kylix, Kalpis, Hydria, Phiale, Skyphos, Kyathos, Kylix, Kymbe.
Greek Military of Antiquity. Different types of Chariots and Armor.
War, race and triumphal chariots. Greek soldier. Leader in full armor. Different types of the Greek helmet and weapons.
Archimedes of Syracuse. Mathematician of antiquity.
Archimedes of Syracuse (Greek χρχιμήδης Archimēdēs) born around 287 BC probably in Syracuse; Died in 212 BC, was a Greek mathematician, physicist and engineer. He is considered one of the most important mathematicians of antiquity.
Electra waits for the return of Orestes.
Electra, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, mourning the fate of her father, waits for the return of Orestes, her brother, as the avenger of his father’s death.
Clothing of the ancient Greeks.
Priestess. Noble Greek women with peplum. Winner in the Olympics. Bacchus priest. Greek king with regalia.
Ancient warriors. Life-size figures in full armor.
Ancient warriors. Life-size figures in full armor and equipment. Carl Gimbel Collection.
Greek Lady of Sicily. Dame Grecque de Sicile.
Dame Grecque de Sicile. Costumes historiques de ville ou de théatre et travestissements. Achille Devéria
Amazon. Illustration of a female warrior found on a Greek vase.
The costume of the ancient, by Thomas Hope. Amazon picture was found on a Greek vase.
Hermaphroditos, the son of the god Hermes and the goddess Aphrodite.
A terminal statue of an Hermaphrodite. The human body extends downwards as low as the hips, whence it gradually assumes the form of a square pilaster diminishing in size towards the base.