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  2. Clothing in ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    Greeks used many different words to describe the earrings including the Elikteres (ἑλικτῆρες), Enotia (ἑνώτια, sometimes called Enodia (ἑνώδια) in some inscritpions), Plastra (πλάστρα) and Ellobia (ἑλλόβια). [96] Sphingter (σφιγκτήρ) was a coil bracelet, made of gold, worn by women on the left arm ...

  3. Clothing in the ancient world - Wikipedia

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    The toga candida, an especially whitened toga, was worn by political candidates. Prostitutes wore the toga muliebris, rather than the tunics worn by most women. The toga pulla was dark-colored and worn for mourning, while the toga purpurea, of purple-dyed wool, was worn in times of triumph and by the Roman emperor.

  4. Toga - Wikipedia

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    Statue of the Emperor Tiberius showing a draped toga of the 1st century AD. The toga (/ ˈ t oʊ ɡ ə /, Classical Latin: [ˈt̪ɔ.ɡa]), a distinctive garment of Ancient Rome, was a roughly semicircular cloth, between 12 and 20 feet (3.7 and 6.1 m) in length, draped over the shoulders and around the body.

  5. Byzantine dress - Wikipedia

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    In their hands they hold what are called phengia". The second group do just the same, but wearing "a garment of green and red, split, with gold bands". These colours were the marks of the old chariot racing factions, the four now merged to just the Blues and the Greens, and incorporated into the official hierarchy. At this period a court ...

  6. Use of costume in Athenian tragedy - Wikipedia

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    The Greeks called these physical stances schemata (forms). Silent masks were used to great effect, particularly on child actors, expressing powerlessness, bewilderment, vulnerability, etc. The use of masks enabled the three speaking actors to portray up to eight or nine characters, through multiple role-playing.

  7. Greek dress - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Greeks depicted in variety of different costumes. Detail of a Kore's dress 14th-century military martyr wears four layers, all patterned and richly trimmed: a tunic and a mantle decorated with a tablion. Greek dress refers to the clothing of the Greek people and citizens of Greece from antiquity to modern times.

  8. Himation - Wikipedia

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    Statues at the "House of Cleopatra" in Delos, Greece.Woman and man wearing himations. A himation (/ h ɪ ˈ m æ t i ˌ ɒ n / hə-MAT-ee-un, [1] Ancient Greek: ἱμάτιον) was a type of clothing, a mantle or wrap worn by ancient Greek men and women from the Archaic period through the Hellenistic period (c. 750–30 BC). [2]

  9. Tainia (costume) - Wikipedia

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    In ancient Greek costume, a tainia (Ancient Greek: ταινία; pl.: ταινίαι or Latin: taenia; pl.: taeniae) was a headband, ribbon, or fillet. Coin of king Perseus of Macedon wearing a taenia or diadema headband. The tainia headband was worn with the traditional ancient Greek costume. The headbands were worn at Greek festivals. [1]