Statue of Athénè. Plate 68
Statue of Athénè. Plate 61
Athena with peplos or himation partly girt round the waist.
Statue of Athénè. Plate 66
Pallas Athene. The peplos and diploidion, and the Gorgoned aegis extended as a covering to the arm that holds the shield.
Statue of Athénè. Plate 60
Pallas Athene (Minerva) wearing the aegis with the Gorgon’s head on her breast; she wears the himation as a diplax. This statue answers the description of the Athene of Phidias, in the Parthenon.
Statue of Athénè
Statue of Athene; wears as under-garment the chiton, next the peplos, with the wars of the giants embroidered thereon; the upper part of the garment is turned over at the neck, so as to hang over the under portion, and so form a diploidion, or this diploidion may be made of a separate piece of cloth. Over all she wears the aegis, or skin of the goat Amalthea, which was fastened over the shoulders and breast, and hung over the left arm as a shield-cover (see plate 66).
Afterwards it was used solely as a breastplate {see plates 60, 61, 68). The breast part of the aegis has the Gorgon’s head.
Greek Female dancer
Female dancer with himation only, called, when thus worn, Achiton, i.e. without chiton.
Greek girl in chiton
Greek girl in chiton
Girls with clasp-fastened chitons; the upper part is doubled over, and the girdle goes over the two thicknesses of the cloth.
Side view of figure with detached diploidion.
Diploidion or bib over peplos and chiton poderes.
Figure with long-sided chiton.