Question: how do Greek imperial female portrait statues look like in 4th century bc?

Answer: Alexander conquered Greece in 338 BCE and there were no imperial females before this time. After the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE there were imperial females in the hellenistic states. I know of no portraits of queens in the period 323 - 300 BCE.

Question: were marble female statues colored with some type of paint?

Answer: in ancient Greece this was true.

Question: what did the Greek women wear at religious cerimonies?

Answer: Their finest clothes. Here are some examples:

• Girl with offering
• Woman with offering
• Two women at a festival of Dionysus
• Two women at a festival of Dionysus

Question: What did women, men, and children of 700-900 B.C. wear?

Answer: The peplos was more common than the chiton.

Question: I would like to be Aphrodite for halloween, but not exactly nude. How do I make or find a great Aphrodite costume??

Answer: You would be better fo focus on Aphrodite's symbols. She would have worn a fine chiton, perhaps even with a peplos over it. She would have a crown in her hair. Useful accessories include: a dove, a love apple, a mirror and a comb, a fishtail or a scallop shell. A mermaid is Aphrodite transformed to later mythology. Some images show Aphrodite with a crown with a dove in it.

Question: what did ancient greece man wear in theater?

Answer: A chiton or a himation.

Question: why is this fucking sit so goddamn gay?

Answer: Homosexuality was tolerated by the ancient Greeks. The Christian culture of today does not tolerate it. But the present thinking is that homosexuals have no control over their feelings and should not be the subject of prejudice.

Question: did people always walk compleatly naked in the sreet

Answer: No. People did not walk naked in the street. Nudity was much more common in public, and it was not a criminal activity as it is today. Most nudity was among young children. Clothes bring respectibility and this is a quality that most desired. Nudity would have been reserved for special occasions such as a wedding, an athletic contest, or the birth of a child.

Question: What is a flounced , girdle , peplop and a chilton?

Answer: These are described in the glossary at the beginning of the article. It is flounced skirt, girdle, peplos, and chiton.

Question: what kinds of clothes were worn in the oddysey, ex. odysseus, Athena, Circe?

Answer: These people were Mycenaean so they wore clothes more like the Minoans. The ancient Greeks picture them in clothes of the classical period but this is not correct.

Question: i've been looking 4 a picture of both poor people and rich people can u please help me with this

Answer:

• bakers
• servant
• Mourning Servant Girl
• Servant woman

Question: what was the Athenian dress stly around 430 B.C.

Answer: The style was the chiton. Click here

Question: where to find greek clothing?

Answer: Greek-Shop

Question: How can you draw greek clothing

Answer: Greek Costumes

Question: where do the greeks live now

Answer: The Roman Empire scattered Greeks all over because they were in demand as teachers. Many went to Rome to live. The Greeks that live in Ellas today are decendants of the ancient Greeks. Brief on Greece

Question: greek drancer dress

Answer: The chiton was commonly used. The garment would be folded around the waist and tied so the length was appropriate to the activity. Of course many of the dancers were naked.

Question: why were women thrown out if they wore a pin after the battle of marathon?

Answer: The pins that the women used in peplos were quite sturdy and long and they began to use them as weapons.

Question: average weight?

Answer: The effects of the folds illustrated in the vace paintings suggest a material that is very light and fine. Of course the weight used would vary with the weather. The common response to my question as to the nature of the material required for the effects illustrated, is that the artists had conventions of illustration whih did not correspond to reality. To me this seems highly unlikely. I have commisioned a weaver to produce a chiton so this situation can be investigated.

Question: how do i make a simple togo costume to wear to work on halloween? please help...

Answer: The ancient Greeks wore a chiton and not a toga.

Question: How did ancent fabrics and textiles get traded around the mediterraneann

Answer: Sailing ships operated by traders sailed around the Mediterranean.

Question: Did they have restaurants????????????????????

Answer: Most business people had their business right in their home. Though there were no restaurants in our sense there were plenty of homes you could go to buy a meal.

Question: can you give me some pictures of the masks that they wore and information about the masks

Answer: Information about masks is in the sections on Clothes and Drama. Click on the menu directory below.

Question: I'm doing a big project on Greece can you PLEASE tell me what Greeks wore on special occasions what were they like?

Answer: During the archaic and classical periods the Greeks wore the same clothes but the materials were finer for festivals. The dresses were more sheer and more revealing. Silks, rather than wool might have been worn. During the Minoan period the women wore fancy flounced dresses for festivals.

Question: What were bathrooms like?

Answer: There were few bathrooms in ancient Greece. Most people used a wash basin and a bed pan for wastes. Water had to be hauled from a spring or a well for use. The wastes were then spread on the agricultural fields. Sometimes a spring house had tubs for bathing. Some bathing was done in a local stream. Only later were aquaducts built that delivered water to individual homes in Greece, while this was a common practice of the Romans.

• Squatting youth with mirror and basin
• man with basin, pig
• Man at a basin
• A woman runs to the right, toward a basin, but turns profile to the left, toward a door.

Question: ancient greece clothing time line

Answer: In terms of date of image:

• Cycladic sculpture, 2800-2300 BCE
• Fancy flounced skirt, 1600-1580 BCE
• Woman in gown on figure 5a, 1200 BCE
• Archaic clothed Aphrodite, 520 - 500 BCE
• Woman wearing a chiton and himation, 485 - 475 BCE
• Girl with offering, 450 BCE
• Bride on a couch, 440 - 430 BCE
• Philinna, 370 BCE
• Hera, 350 BCE

Question: How may a rich Greek's clothes be different from a poor Greek's?

Answer: Quantity and quality of jewelry is often an indicator of status. The fineness of the material and its color is important too. Purple was the most expensive color. Silk was available but very expensive.

Question: What did the clothing in Ancient Greek drama look like?

Answer: The actors wore everyday street clothes.

Question: did the acient greek people wear socks?

Answer: They wore neither socks nor any other underwear. This made their hygeine more difficult and increased the spread of disease.

Question: what did kings wear?

Answer: Kings were scarce in classical and archaic Greece but they wore the same clothes as everyone else. The color purple was expensive so they wore that. In the Mycenaean period they wore Mycenaean garb. This included robes mainly.

Question: what did Greek actors wear?

Answer: Their street clothes.

Question: I need to find costumes of a rich male, rich female, religous leader and a military leader of ancient greece. PLEASE HELP ME!!!!

Answer: They all wore the same clothes in Ancient Greece. The military leader would wear armor.

Examples:

• A rich male (actually Zeus)
• A rich female (actually Hera)
• A military leader (actually Athena)
• A religious leader

Question: what did clothes cost in them days

Answer: Clothes were a lot more expensive. Wool was hand spun, then hand-woven into cloth, and finally hand sewn into articles. A person might have to sacrifice a month or more of wages for one change of clothes.

Question: How did the woman of ancient Greece make and put on their clothes?

Answer: The dresses that the women wore were essentially two swares of cloth, one for the front and one for the back. The different looks that were achieved were obtained by tying and folding differently.

Question: what are some names and descriptions of clothing for the differant classes

Answer: The clothing did not differe by class. The color differed. Purple was expensive and high classed. And Jewelry differed. High class people wore crowns and silver and gold.

Question: what kind of clothing is worn over the peplos?

Answer: The himation is a cloak-like garment sometimes worn over the peplos.

Question: I'm in a production of "By Jupiter", which is a show about the Amazons, the Greeks, and the quest for the girdle of Diana. I'm playing the Amazon Queen and need costume ideas. Please help!

Answer: The concept of girdle can be handled in a number of ways as is illustrated in the following: click here

Question: Did they wher togas and if they did can you show me pictures and give me information.

Answer: The ancient Greeks did not wear togas but they wore chitons, which are similar.

Question: Did the wealthier people have a different wardrobe than the others?

Answer: No. But they wore more expensive material and jewelry.

Question: what did a spartan soilder dress like and what weapons did he carry? please email the answer back to me if u can

Answer:

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• 5

Question: what did Athenian Women ware causaly

Answer: They wore the same type of clothes for every occaision. To dress up they would wear more ties and jewelry.

Question: What are the differnces between nowadays womens clothing to ancient greek women

Answer: In ancient Greece womens's clothing consisted of rectangles of material sewn together that draped on the body like a sheet. Today women's clothing is made from more irregular shaped pieces that hug the body.

Question: did the women make the clothing?

Answer: Yes. They spun the wool; wove the cloth; and sewed the cloth into garments.

Question: What did the kids wear??the females??the men??Was their a color of clothes that they would wear??

Answer: They all wore the same things mentioned above. The colors varied with taste and price.

Question: I noticed that not many women wore clothing in many of the pictures that I have seen on the topic for my project. Is this true or do they only pose nude in pictures?

Answer: In ancient Greece public nudity was much more tolerated than it is today. But it was mainly the men that appeared nude. In the Minoan culture women wore their breasts exposed, but in the other cultures they were covered. The Greek men became accustomed to nudity in athletic competitions. This practice led to the heroic nude which displayed heroes and victors in the nude. Artists reinforced this practice because it is easier to achieve a naturalistic pose in a nude figure. The naturalism achieved became quite popular and this reinforced the idea of the nude in art. Eventually women were portrayed this way too. The ideal women in the nude was found to be sexy as well so images of nude women became quite popular. The result is that women are more often pictured nude than they appear in reality.

One fact that is interesting about ancient Greek art is the wide variety of activities that are pictured. This gives us more insight into the culture of the ancient Greeks than into other cultures. Within this contest the question of nudity becomes more interesting. Are there topics that are more conducive to nudity than others. For bathing nudity seems logical, but what about weaving? And why should the Greeks have pictured women dressing and undressing. Now we think this is sexy, but did the Greeks have the same idea? Perhaps the artists were just interested in abstract shapes.

Question: what kind of clothing did they where on a ually day

Answer: Most people had only one change of clothing so they always wore the same thing. When it was hot layers came off, and when it was cold more layers went on. For variety they would tie the clothes differently, wear jewelry, or wear a wrap.

Question: Did the Greek women were wigs?

Answer: Probably, but they were not obvious to anyone. Their hairdos appear quite natural.

Question: what colours did upper class women wear more? And was purple worn only by the royalty, or could it be worn by any person? As well, i'm acting in Lysistrata by Aristophanes, and am the character Kalonike. if u're familiar with the play, could u give me some suggestions as to costume? the play takes place in 411 B.C. and she is Athenian. thanx a lot.

Answer: The upper class wore any color of the rainbow. There were no royalty in ancient Greece. All the ladies wore the same basic costume, but it was tied differently, of finer quality in Athens, and worn with different jewelry. We will be doing Lysistrata in the next few months but we have not cast the characters yet.

Question: Who wore the bands of gold leaves around their head and why? (They were a type of wreath.)

Answer: "Ariadne also had a radiant circular crown of gold, made by Aphrodite, which Dionysos had given her in token of His love. She gave this to Theseus, and Ariadne's Crown (Stephanos AriadnÁs) illuminated his journey and guided him along the way." Ancient Greek Samhain Festivals; John Opsopaus (c) 1996

Question: What if any were the differences in Crete and /greek clothing

Answer: Greek clothes were well adapted to the fact that the clothes were woven on a loom by the women of the community. The clothes were made up of simple rectangular patterns that were easy to weave and sew together. From this point of view the clothes of Minoan Crete were quite remarkable. The ladies wore a three piece outfit consisting of three pieces. On the upper body a vest-like garment was worn that could expose the breasts and perhaps cover them if the weather was cold. Around the waist was a wide girdle that cinched the waist until it was quite narrow. The lower part of the body was covered with a flounced skirt that may have consisted of many layers. All these pieces were close fitting and would have required tailoring.

• Minoan FAIENCE SNAKE GODDESS from Crete wearing Cretan outfit
• Greek Artemis wearing a himation draped over her shoulders, a thin chiton with an overfold, a thin stephane

Question: Do you have a picture and the name of the gold leafed crowns worn by ancient greeks?

Answer: Maid with diadem (Ariadne?)

Question: how did they make there clothes?

Answer: The women wove rectangles of cloth which they sewed together to make clothes.

Question: How did epithemeus dress?

Answer: This could be a picture of Epimetheus and Pandora: Answer: Sprigs were important:

• Youth holding a sprig
• Three youths one holding sprig
• Wreathes similar to sprigs

Question: Who wore clothing? Who did not? What fabric did they use? Who made the clothing? Did they wear make-up? did they wear wigs?

Answer: Everyone, except young children, wore clothing to keep warm and to protect them from the elements. If the weather was pleasant clothes would be removed by some. Athletes would perform naked, and bathers would bathe nakea. The clothing was made by the women of the culture. They wore make-up but it was light. They probably wore wigs too, but they are not obvious. The ancient Greek women had a very natural looking beauty.

Question: What is a tunic?

Answer:a bearded archer, wearing a short tunic

Question: where can i find pictures of ancient greek children

Answer:

• girl with basket
• child on stag
• Herakles, Eurytos, and his children
• child at left
• woman holding child
• Achilles as a child

Question: How did they punish poeple for stealing?

Answer: Punishments included fines, exile, loss of civic rights, or death.

Question: WHAT IS A HIMATION

Answer: A large, rectangular piece of material used as a cloak or shoulder wrap.

Question: what type of traditional clothing did men and women wear in ancient greece

Answer: The peplos, chiton, and himation were traditional.

Question: who makes the clothing?

Answer: The clothing of ancient Greece was made by the women of ancient Greece.

Question: did they have bras?

Answer: No, they did not. If they needed something like a bra they used a triangular bandage.

Question: what piece of cloths did they wear over their right shoulder?

Answer: This was an issue only for the Amazons which see. The himation was worn over the shoulder on one side, but the peplos and chiton were worn on both shoulders.

Question: what did ancient grece women and men wear in winter

Answer: Layers. First a tunic perhaps, then a chiton, with a peplos over that. Then a himation. If that was not enough another himation could be added.

Question: What types of masks did they wear?

Answer: Click here

Question: What did the ancient greeks normally wear as house clothes and sleepwear?

Answer: In the Odyssey, Homer suggests that they slept naked and lounged in their everyday clothes.

Question: When start Textile?

Answer: Weaving relates to basketry and began about 5000 BCE with flax.

Question: What did Spartan warriors wear in battles?

Answer: Standard Greek Armor: corinthian helmet, cuirass, tunic, apron, shield, spear, sword, greaves, sandals.

Question: How did u get this information??

Answer: The ancient Greeks left much information in the form of texts and stories that were written down and copied. They also left art that was preserved or copied. Finally, many people have written about the ancient Greeks because they were so influential. I have studied all this material.

Question: the trojen war

Answer: Click on the Menu Directory below then click on Homer.

Question: what did the lower class people wear

Answer: The same clothes except less jewelry and cheaper fabric..

Question: ionic chiton

Answer: Click Here

Question: Were there any gay guys back then?

Answer: Click on the Menu Directory below then click on love and sex.

Question: Are Ancient Greek styles of clothing and jewelery similair as to those of Ancient Egyptians?

Answer: Not really. Clothes were more of a necessity to the ancient Greeks while to the Egyptians they were a luxury. http://www.costumes.org/pages/fashiondress/ancientegypt.htm

Question: Did women have as many rights as they do today? Were they forced to wear certain kinds of makeup or clothing?

Answer: Women in ancient Greece did not have any rights, but they were free of most of the taboos of other societies. As a result they wore very little makeup. Men and women wore the same general type of clothing, but women preferred thinner, more supple fabrics. Activities were divided along sexual lines so women di women's work such as weaving, cooking, and caring for children.

Question: how can they wear that stuff

Answer: Greek clothes are easy to make and easy to fit. They put on quickly and take off easily. They are really easy to wear.

Question: I need a picture of a womens chiton in the color saffron. what color is saffron ? People are telling me a red-orange is this right..

Answer: Not quite. Saffron is an herb that is the stigma of the saffron flower which blooms on a crocus plant. The orange stigmas produce an intense dye that varies from red-orange to yellow depending upon the amount used. An article on working with saffron follows: Click Here

Question: why did people in Greece wear that kind of clothing?

Answer: It was easy to make, cool in summer, and could be layered for warmth in cold weather.

Question: What do cathurni look like?

Answer: This seems to be a reference to kothornoi. See: Click here, and here. (also called cothurnus) A partial picture is at: Click here. A boot on Orestes is at: Click here but his one seems to lack the thick sole of a buskin. Robert Graves points out that the buskin is important mythologically because it hobbles the wearer and makes him swagger.

Question: What shoes did greek actors wear?

Answer: To appear as women Greek actors wore cothornous" (wooden shoes with tall heels). These shoes were the same for both legs (no right and left).

Question: where can I get a picture of a greec person wearing a toga

Answer: A toga is a Roman garment and not worn by Greeks.

Question: What did Homer look like?

Answer: There are no pictures or descriptions of Homer done by his contempories.

Question: What did writers write?

Answer: Click on the Menu directory below then click on writing.

Question: What did writers wear?

The same chitons, peplos and himations as everyone else.

Questions: I am doing a play at school, and I have a person named Homer, which is a writer. He wrote about the trojan war. Do you know what he wore?

Answer:The same chitons, peplos and himations as everyone else.

Question: did they wear under garmets?

Answer: Underwear is a fairly recent contribution to personal hygiene.

Question: What did Homer wear?

Answer: Probably a chiton, a peplos, or a himation, like everyone else.

Question: what did they make their clothing out of?

Answer: Early on most clothes were made out of the skins of animals. By the Archaic period women wore clothes woven of wool or linen. Silk was available from China and cotton or muslin from Egypt, but they were expensive.

Question: what tools did the ancient greeks use to wove clothing

Answer: They used a warp weighted loom.

Question: what was it like

Answer: Clothes were more for protection than for comfort, but there was no problem with fitting. You were more comfortable is you used lots of olive oil on your skin.

Question: what did the goddess Artemis wear?

Answer: Sometimes she wore only her beautiful skin because she was trim and fit as a result of her aerobic activity. Ususally she wore a short tunic that would not interfere with her activity. But she also wore revealing gossamer gowns that were stunning in their effect. Of the goddesses only Aphrodite was more beautiful, but Artemis had the beauty of maidenhood.

Question: where the vase on there head a type of hat?

Answer: The ancient Greeks did not wear vases on their heads so it must have been a type of hat.

Question: What do we know about the significance of the Kausia?

Answer: Only that it is a Macedonian hat, probably more important after Alexander's conquests.

Question: What did the Mycenaean slaves wear?

Answer: Slaves could not be distinguished by their dress. They wore cheaper versions of what non-slaves wore.

Question: What were the most common colors for ancient Greek clothing? Greek clothing

Answer: Any color of the rainbow was possible. Some colors, such as purple, were more expensive, and so less common, but more desirable.

Question: What materials were used?

Answer: Wool, linen, cotton, and silk.

Question: Do you have any information on ancient Greek toys or pets?

Answer: Click on the Menu directory below and click on daily life.

Question: show me a picture of a tunic

Answer: a man wearing a white tunic

Question: what did cassandra wear?

Answer: Click on the menu directory below and click on Cassandra.

Question: what did selene look like and how did she dress

Answer: Selene is a beautiful goddess who dresses in flowing gossamer and moon beams. In her white hair she wears a crescent coronet.

Question: did they have seasonal clothing?

Answer: Not really. A chiton was the first layer. For their second layer they wore a peplos. As a third layer a himation was worn or a girdle could be worn under the chiton. For warmer seasons they wore fewer layers and for colder seasons they wore more layers.

Question: What kind of clothes did the Greeks wear to banquets or festivals?

Answer: Mostly the classical Greeks wore a fancier version of their everyday clothes. To athletic events the men went nude. The Minoan garments were quite different for festivals. Women wore a fancy flounced skirt, a girdle, and a vest that exposed the breasts. Men wore a robe or loin cloth.

Question: Where can i find info on ancient bra-like tops that were worn by the women of ancient Crete, rome and greek?

Answer: The ancient women seem to have worn a triangular bandage for a bra but I have little evidence of it. The most likely were the Amazons. See the page on Amazons by clicking on the menu directory below.

Question: what was the most famous type of clothing

Answer: The most famous clothing of the Ancient Greeks was no clothing or nudity.

Question: How did a priestess dress??

Answer: As the goddess served would have dressed. This usually was the fanciest garb of the time.

Question: what clothing do they wear in festival and why

Answer: Better quality out of respect for their deities.

Question: what kind of clothing did artemis wear, and how would you make it?

Answer: Most of the goddesses wore imperishable garments woven by Athena which you could not make. The ancinet Greeks pictured Artemis in a fine chiton. This is merely two two-yard square pieces of material bound along the top of the arms and tied at the waist.

Question: I need info on the dress of Queen Amalia

Answer: Queen Amalia was not a queen in ancient Greece. An interesting page on later Greek costume, including that of queen Amalia is at: Click here.

Question: what kind of cloth did hera wear

Answer: Cloth of clothes of a goddess could be almost anything including gossamer, silk, wool, gold, or imperishable material which Athena wove.

Question: What would antigone have worn?

Answer: Antigone was a Mycenaean princess and might have worn clothes similar to that seen on the snake goddess, a flounced skirt, tight girdle, and vest-like blouse that reveals the breasts, but this dress seems to have been worn by the Mycenaeans only for religious purposes. The Hagia Triada Sarcophagus shows women wearing animal skin skirts with a tight blouse, or a robe similar to a peplos. During the time of the writing of the play the women would have worn a peplos or chiton.

Question: can you show me a picture of an ancient greek wedding dress,PLEASE!

Answer: Click on the Menu Directory below and click on Weddings.

Question: What special clothing was worn at ceremonies?

Answer: During the classical period the ceremonial clothing was just a finer grade of material. During the Mycenaean period the flounced skirt may have only been worn during ceremonies.

Question: As a result their contributions have been overlooked, or assigned to men. What is surprising is that women have not made more of an effort to record these accomplishments. Even though women in ancient Greece were not included in the formal system of education, there were many oppotunities that they took advantage of. The result is that the women of ancient Greece were some of the most accomplished women ever, in science and other intellectual areas.

Question: What did servants wear?

Answer: The clothes of their country of origin.

Question: what kind of clothes and hair styles did the men have?

Answer: Men wore the same clothes as the women, but they tended to wear the himation more and the peplos and chiton less. Sample hair:

• head of Apollo Sauroktonos
• head of Ares Borghese
• head of Barbarini Suppliant
• Head of Tityos

Question: who should i dress up to be on Greek Day as i am a female?

Answer: Nike. Wear a chiton and hold a victory wreath.

Question: I'm doing an article on fashion in ancient Greek for my school. Could you tell me what kind of clothes did Helen wear around the time of the Trojan War? Do you have any pictures?

Answer: Helen wore Mycenaean clothes. Click on the menu directory below and click on Helen. Pictures of Helen show her in clothes contempory to the time of the picture. There is no picture of Helen in Mycenaean clothes.

Question: I have to do an article on greek fasion any suggestions?

Answer: Make and model your own chiton and sandals. Include a photo in your article. Use crinkled gauze for the cloth. Try for different looks by folding and tying the garment in different ways.

Question: how to match clothe's color with skin's color

Answer: Skin color needs to be matched only when skin color is important. Different clothes color provides possible contrasts. Complementary colors are tense while supplementary colors relax.

Question: did ancient greek women only wear chitons and peplos

Answer: Mostly, but they also wore himations and other garments including tunics.

Question: I need to put together a costume resembling a greek goddess. I need ideas!!! Help!!!

Answer: Make a peplos or chiton. Instructions are above.

Question: What type of clothing did medusa were

Answer: Click here

Question: why did the people clean their clothing?

Answer: In the Odyssey, Book VI, to Nausicaa Athena says: "Here are your clothes all lying in disorder, yet you are going to be married almost immediately, and should not only be well dressed yourself, but should find good clothes for those who attend you. This is the way to get yourself a good name, and to make your father and mother proud of you. Suppose, then, that we make tomorrow a washing day, and start at daybreak."

Later Nausicaa argues with her father for washing thus: "Papa dear, could you manage to let me have a good big waggon? I want to take all our dirty clothes to the river and wash them. You are the chief man here, so it is only right that you should have a clean shirt when you attend meetings of the council. Moreover, you have five sons at home, two of them married, while the other three are good looking bachelors; you know they always like to have clean linen when they go to a dance, and I have been thinking about all this."

Question: What kinds of patterns were used on the minoan clothes?

Answer: No trace of Minoan clothes remains so it must be studied by reviewing how it is imaged on murals, seal stones, and other decorative arts. Unfortunately what we see is more mysterious. The fancy flounced skirt in evidence is much fancier than what one would expect. This result is easiest to explain if only the highest aristocrats wore these and the others wore nothing. Though these skirts are highly ornamented, the patterns are geometric and abstract and consist mainly of rectangles and loops. Here are some examples:

• fiance snake godddes
• gold ring

Question: what did a woman shopworker wear

Answer: Women did not work in a shop unless they were a slave. Women worked in the home. All citizens wore a peplos, chiton, or himation. Slaves wore the clothes from their country of origin.

Question: what type of clothing did people wear within different classes

Answer: Colors and qualities differed by class but the basic clothes were the same. Well-to-do wore purple and silk. Middle-class wore red and linen. lower classes wore drab colors of wool or mixed fibers. But this was not a universal rule.

Question: what was the clothing that the men of the Mycenaean culture wore?

Answer: The dress of Mycenaean and Minoan cultures are believed to be similar. The Warrior Vase contains an image of warrior gear which is consistent with Homer: Click here. The garment appears to be a tunic. Notice that the Minoan bull leapers wear only a loin cloth: Click here. The men in this picture are wearing leather skirts: Click here. For workers and slaves nudity was probably quite acceptable. For colder weather a wrobe, similar to a himation was probably worn.

Question: who do you think came up with the idea that the female could use clothes to control sexual stimulation.

Answer: The early scuptures contain marks which emphasize the pubic area. The suspicion is that the first garments were talismans to reinforce female power. Aprons were worn to reinforce this idea after clothes were more common. Garments were objects of devotion because of the power that they held.

Question: i need to know for a school assignment what was the difference in clothing between athenian and spartan women?

Answer: They wore the same basic garments but the Spartan women were very plain while the Athenian women were much more luxurious.

Question: What was the accepted color for the wedding gown and veil

Answer: Red

Question: cloth_q=The accepted colors for women

Answer: Women were not restricted to certain colors.

Question: what did they wear on the top half of their body

Answer: During the Minoan period both men and women commonly wore nothing on the top half of their body. Women covered themselves with a vest or girdle. Men wore a tunic or robe. Later on mainland Greece men wore a himation and women wore a peplos or chiton, though both sexes commonly wore both these garments. Tunics and girdles were also worn. A girdle varied from a tunic-like garment, to an apron, or a belt, or even a sash.

Question: what was the latest trend in ancent greece

Answer: Ancient Greece was a very fast paced society and things changed constantly. These changing styles are documented in the art of ancient Greece. The particular style depends on the date.

Question: Please could you send me details and pictures of what thw Ancient Greeks wore as underwear and what they wore in bed .

Answer: They did not wear underwear. They may not have worn anything to bed or they may often have slept in their clothes depending on the temperature. In the following picture both Ismene seem to be without clothes though they have just been in bed: Tydeus and Ismene

Question: name of forehead band worn by ancient athenians

Answer: kerkryphylona, sakkos, sphendonei, stephanei, taenia were the names of scarves worn.

Question: how does greek women wear compare today with what women wear

Answer: The clothes worn by the ancient Greek ladies were simple, flowing garments that were revealing, and have inspired artists for over two thousand years. The clothes of today are much more complicated, often conform to the body, and are not that inspiring to artists. In fact many artists would rather paint women naked than with modern clothes.

Question: what were the key accsessories worn in roman/greek times?

Answer: In Greek times accessories included scarves, belts, sashes, sandals and jewelry.

Question: What clothing was worn by royalty in ancient greek.

Answer: There was no royalty in ancient Greece. But to see what they would have worn just study the images of the Gods and Goddesses. They were always dressed in the finest garments.

Question: were greek womeprohibited from wearing certain colors?

Answer: Greek women were free of this type of prohibition.

Question: how did they find there clothing

Answer: Most people wore the same clothing all the time. The clothing consisted of two or more rectangles of cloth, so it was easy to replace. The style of the clothing was how it was tied or ornamented.

Question: How was clothing influenced by society, it's structure and values, and culture?

Answer: Clothing and societal values are closely related. The first clothes were worn for their symbolic power and not because of the elements. Women wore a girdle over their pubic region to help them get pregnant. Later skirts were worshipped as representing the divine. When a women wears clothes to cover her modesty she is making a statement about societal values. In ancient Greek clothes on women and nude males was a statement of cultural identity. People often wear the clothes of the country of their origin.

Question: How could you tell who was rich and who was poor by their clothing?

Answer:

• Color was a factor. Purple cost the most. Red was expensive. Other colors were less expensive.
• Cloth was a factor. Silk cost the most. Cotton was expensive, Linen was next, wool was least expensive.
• Jewelry was the most important factor. Cost and amount indicated wealth.
• The wealthiest had lots of slaves to wash and iron.
• The wealthiest kept horses and drove chariots.
• The wealthiest had large houses with large gardens.

Question: How were they wash there clothes

Answer: They put the clothes in clean water where they were agitated. Then they rinsed them and layed them out to dry.

Question: Is there a particular time period?

Answer: the time periods covered here include neolithic, bronze, archaic, classic, and hellenistic. Nothing about Rome is covered. The Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations are emphasized.

Question: how has ths type of dress influenced contempory way of dressing?

Answer: Greek dress became the dress of angels and priests. Wedding dresses often resemble Greek clothes. Olympic festivities often include ancient Greek dress. Greek drapery is often considered very feminine.

Question: How did the Gods dress

Answer: The gods and goddesses have the ability to shift their shape and adapt their dress to the tastes and needs of their clients. The question may more relate to how they dressed for each other. For almost two thousand years the gods and goddesses have been portrayed without any clothes at all even though the ancient Greeks protrayed them usually with clothes. The ancient Greek concept of the heroic nude, developed in the context of their athletic events, encouraged this portrayal. A nude god or goddess also has the symbolic meaning of purity, while a nude mortal is associated with sin and immorality.

Of course when a god or goddess dresses for good effect they dress in the finest garments. Precious materials of high value are mentioned. But even silk is not fine enough for the divine. Gossamer is the material of choice. Mortals cannot begin to deal with this material which can only be woven by spiders under divine control. Gossamer cannot even be worn by mortals. When it is worn by an immortal it has a divine effect.

Clothing has never been a problem for the gods and goddesses. Athena makes it for most of them. And when she makes it, it is often imperishable and never needs replacement.

Question: Why did the Greeks wear such simple clothing?

Answser: It was part of their culture, it was comfortable, and it was easy to make.

Question: what is a Brassiere

Answer: The ancient Greeks knew nothing of brassieres.

Question: What was the jelery made from?

answer: jewelry was made from silver and gold and precious and seiprecious stones. Ivory and shell were also used.

Question: what did queens wear

Answer: During the heroic period queens wore the standard garb of a priestess. This included a fancy flounced skirt, a girdle and a vest that exposed the breasts. During the archaic and classical periods there were few, if any queens in Greece. But goddesses were pictured as dressed like queens. The wore a peplos or chiton of fine cloth.

Question: How do we know that the Mycenaens ahd a similar dress to the Minoans?

Answer: We have discovered murals from both cultures.

Question: What fashions did the Mycenaeans have and how do we kow this?

Answer: What follows are some illustration of Mycenaean fashions.

• Figurine
• Mycenaean Art
• bard
• idols
• boxing scene
• idol
• Mycenaean Art

Question: do you have any images of the ancient greek costumes that men wore when playing the role of wemon in ancient greek theater?

Answer: No. I do not.

Question: Please define "diploidion" and "himation" thouroughly

Answer: I cannot find diploidion. A himation is a large scarf.

Question: what kind of clothing would Clytemnestra, Wife of King agamemnon wear?

Answer: Clytemnestra was a Mycenaean queen. Mycenaean fashions are illustrated above.

Question: How did they carry there money if they had no pockets

Answer: They carried money in small bags or sacks. youth carrying money bag before a group of pots

Question: DID THE WAY THE ANCIENT GRECEE CLOTHING REVEAL THEIR SOCIAL CLASS???????? hELP ME PLEASE

Answer: Clothes did not reveal social class but jewelry did.

Question: I have to dress up as Nausicaa for a school project. What would you recommend I wear and how would I make it?

Answer: The most authentic costume would be Mycenaean dress. This includes a fancy flounced dress, a girdle and a vest like garment that exposes the breasts. You could wear a skin colored body suit so your breasts would not be exposed. But this outfit is not easy to make. snake goddess, snake goddess, Snake goddess. The top is a vest exposing the breasts with sleeves, The skirt is heavily flounced and reaches to the floor. The top of the skirt may be at the waist or it may ride low on the hips. There is a girdle consisting of a wide belt or apron that covers the joints in between these two garments. In the ninteenth century a similar look was achieved with a whalebone girdle and petticoats but it seems unlikely that the Mycenaeans used either of these. It seems more likely that the flouncing was achieved by sewing ruffled squares in a regular pattern on the outside of a tapered skirt. The ruffles could be fastened on just the top edge.

Question: Did the ancient Greeks wear anything like underwear, such as the "loincloth" worn by Israelites?

Answer: No.

Question: Need picture of rich athenian lady

Answer:

• woman sacrificing
• seated woman
• woman on klysmos
• woman with bar
• standing woman

Question: What do the women where is the summer when the wheather is very hot

Answer: They wore light material and stayed out of the sun. Most Greek homes were provided with a porch surrounding a courtyard. The women stayed in the shade of the porch while they worked.

Question: I would like to know the type of clothing middle class Greek wore. What color and type of fabric were they?

Answer: All Greeks wore the same clothing, chiton, peplos, or himation. All but the wealthiest wore wool.

Question: how do you make a replica of aniceint greek clothing with a sheet?

Answer: You will have little success with a sheet. A sheet is the wrong shape and too stiff. What you need is a piece of material as wide as you are tall and twice as long. Fold the material and on one side next to the fold you need to pin the material so the two edges are fastened. One pin is one-third of the way from the fold to the other edge. The other pin is two-thirds of the way. Now get inside the material so your head is between the pins and the pins rest on your shoulders. Now gather the material around your waste so the material does not drag on the floor. Tie the material with a belt or apron so it stays gathered.

The best material is a gauze. Silk is best but cotton is acceptable. Wool can be made to work but it is hard to find wool gauze. Greek clothes seem to have the texture of a fine silk nightgown.

Question: How did Acincient Greeks wash their clothes?

Answer: They located a pool of fresh water that was rapily repenishing itself. They immersed the clothes in the water an worked them with their hands. Then they rinsed them in the fresh water and wrung the water out of them. Finally they laid them out to dry on the grass in the sun.

Question: What did poor greeks wear

Answer: All Greeks wore the same style of clothes. It was part of their national identity. Poor people wore clothes made of poorer cloth and less color. They also wore cheap jewelry.

Question: What is a pelops?

Answer: peplos misspelled.

Question: could you show me some pictures of casual ancient Greek clothing(men & women) please

Answer: There was no casual as opposed to formal clothes in ancient Greece. They were all the same.

Question: what is one item that ancient greek actors would wear on stage in a tragedy?

Answer: A mask was almost always worn because it identified the character and helped the actor project his voice.

Question: what about amazons clothing worn in battle

Answer: My idea is that an Amazon is a Minoan priestess who went with the Minoan warriors. These priestesses dramatized the goddesses fighting with the enemy, but they did not really fight. They wore the flounced skirt, girdle, and revealing vest that the Minoan priestesses wore. But the Amazons became a symbol for a generalized enemy. Artists then depicted them in whatever garb was characteristic of the enemy at the time of the artist.

Question: Who made the clothing that men and women wore?

Answer: Mainly the women.

Question: Did Greek children wear anything besides nudity

Answer: Typically the ancient Greek children wore no clothes and were absolutely nude.

Question: Greetings: An excellent historical novelist uses pleats/folds as a central image for a 15th-c. courtesan on Cyprus (& Rhodes) who is explicitly compared to Aphrodite & who has pleated hair, pleat-like dimples, intricate clothing, etc. Are there any classical sources specifically linking pleats with Aphrodite (or other goddesses)? Literary, visual-arts, or what? TIA...

Answer: First establish what pleated hair looks like. There are few references to it. But here is one: Pleated hair. Here is a verbal description: Click here. Such an informal style does not seem suitable for a goddess. Here is a goddess with a pleated gown: A souvenir Tyche is an ancient copy of a lost statue of Antioch's city goddess, with gold inset eyes, mural crown, and pleated drapery. Worcester Art Museum.

Though pleats are not associated with ancient Greek goddesses braids are. And there were sacred dresses but they were not pleated. The ancient Minoan skirts were flounced rather than pleated. The classical Greek peplos looked to be ruffled rather than pleated. But beauty was an important quality of women and goddesses. A goddess would be likely to wear the most fashionable garb. And styles changed dramatically. Pleats might have been stylish at some point.

Question: Were the grrks geatly influenced by the romans at that time?

Answer: The Greeks were not influenced by the Roman at all until the Romans conquered Greece. The Greeks were greatly influential on the Romans even late intop the Roman Empire. The Greeks became the professionals of ancient Rome including the doctors and teachers.

Question: Did woman were bras and panties

Answer: No. They did not. They did wear girdles though.

Question: What is Eris, goddess of discod and strife clothings?

Answer:

• Eris
• MARCO ALBIERO

Question: When was the pet asus worn?

Answer: Travelers wore the petasos. It worked like an umbrella to shield off the sun and rain.

Question: What colors did the greeks use to dye there clothing

Answer: Every color of the rainbow.

Question: How did Greek physicians dress?

Answer: No special dress.

Question: What colors were used?

Answer: All colors were used. Purple was associated with the wealthy and royalty; red was associated with weddings; white with death and black with birth. Fabrics were all woven on weight warped looms. Wool, linen, cotton and silk. Some fabrics were almost transparent.

Question: What was the style in ancient Greek

Answer: What is called the classical style is often attached to Ancient Greece. This is the style imaged on the Parthenon. During the modern period there has oftem been a Neo-Classical Revival and this is the style that is copied. This style involves soft flowing fabrics that hug the skin and drape beautifully over the body. But the Greeks were a dynamic people who changed styles frequently. They did stick to similar structures with the flounced skirt in heroic times, the peplos in archaic times and the chiton in classical times. With this base many combinations of belts, ties, ties, jewelry, and hairdos were tried. We can study the styles by reviewing images on pottery from various dates.

Question: I need your hlep agin. I need you to tell my about hats and hair.You now with it for.Thank you!

Answer: Hair has its own page. See the menu directory below. There were many kinds of hats: petasos, tholia, kausian. Women wore a number of hair coverings.

Question: What did soldiers wear?

Answer: Helmet, tunic, cuirass, apron, greaves, sandals.

Question: Who do you do your clothing do you buy your clothing or you make it. When you get it. I am doing a project of social studies and I need your hlep. Thank you.

Answer: I make the ancient Greek clothing. I am making a manikin so I can better demonstrate how it is made. You cannot wear accurate Greek clothing in public.

Question: What type of clothing was worn to festivals?

Answer: The clothing normally illustrated was festival clothing. They saved their clothing by not wearing any when they did not need to. Women did not appear nude in public but they would not be arrested if they did. Men often appeared nude in public and sometimes went nude to a festival.

Question: what wuld a simple yet not skimpy peice of girl's clothing look like?

Answer: The ancient Greeks were not pictured in a simple garment. The following is one of the simplest: Servant girl. Clothes were for special occaisions. When they did not need them they took them off. The women did not wear anything skimpy. When they wanted to be revealing they wore garments that were almost transparent. The basic structure of their garments was quite simple. They were basically two squares of material fastened at the shoulders. The complexity resulted in how they were folded, tied, belted, or gathered.

Question: what would rich women wear in ancient Greece?

Answer: Expensive cloth and jewelry of silver and gold.

Question: Cabn you show me a picture of a child wereing adult (color please)

Answer: Click here

Question: What kinds of symbols or embroidery did Megarians wear?

Answer: A specific answer could not be found.

• Info about Megarians
• Nisa
• 1446:Nymph Relief from Megara
• Bottom: Banquet relief from Megara
• Bottom left, Relief from Megara

Question: =HAVE YOU ANY INFORMATION RELATING TO THE DEPICTION OF WOMEN IN ART OF THE HIGH CLASSICAL ERA?

Answer: The ceramics are fairly precisely dated and are often illustrated with women.

Question: What do greek women wear every day

Answer: The most common dress for the average ancient Greek woman was probably nothing. They took their clothes off as often as possible to save their peplos and chitons for good. What we see in the ancient images is women dressed up.

Question: what clothes did ancient greek servants wear(discription, not images)?

Answer: If the servant got to wear any clothes at all they wore the clothes of their country of origin. If they were Greek, they wore the same peplos, chiton, or himation that the rest of the Greeks wore.

Question: bra

Answer: There were no bras in ancient Greece.

Question: What would Sppho have wore?

Answer: A peplos.

Question: what are some of the cloths that people wore in old Greece times, such as Antigone and Haemon

Answer: They would have worn Mycenaean dress.

Question: What was casual clothing for both men and weman during Ancient Greece?

Answer: Clothing was much more expensive and it is very likely most people had only one change of clothing. For most people dressing down meant going without that one change and being nude.

Question: what is the name of the head pieces called? the one with the leaves

Answer: Different leaves were used depending upon the god or goddess being honored.

Question: What are the materials used for their accesories? (belts, shoes, etc...)

Answer: Leather is prominent but there is also wood, ivory, bronze, silver and gold.

Question: what did the poor people in Ancient Greece where for clothes

Answer: Poor people sometimes went without clothes to save their clothes for good. But all people in Greece wore the same style of clothes.

Question: Yes and no. All people wore the same style clothes, but women wore it in a feminie way and men wore it in a masculine way. Material, hair-style, and jewelry were all important.

Question: what did the greeks cosmetics look like

Answer: Cosmetics were gound pigments mixed with bees wax and olive oil or perhaps animal fats such as lanolin. They were kept in small clay jars. Greek ladies used cosmetics very sparingly.

Question: what kind of footwear do most Greeks wear?

Answer: Sandals

Question: how to make ancient greek cloths.

Answer: Ancient Greek ladies wove the cloth on warp weighted looms which they made themselves. The used wool, linen, cotton and silk fibers. As illustrated by the cloths on ceramics, the cloth was exceptionally fine sometimes incoporating elaborate designs. Their references to gossamer suggest the finess of their goal. Sometimes the fabrics were almost transparent. The suppleness of the fabric was also exceptional. Artists are still inspired by the fine qualities of ancient Greek fabric.

Question: what did spartan males wear?

Answer: All people in Greece wore essentially the same clothes. See above.

Question: what do the greek wear when dancing?

Answer: Some wore street clothes and some like to dance nude.

Pictures:
• Revelers
• Two dancers
• dancer with lyre
• Nymphs lead by Hermes in a dance
• dancer
• Theseus and Ariadne leading the crane dance

Question: I can not find any pictures of Minoan dresses. Where can I find some?

• Flounced skirt and girdle
• Leather skirt, girdle as belt and sash girdle
• girdle alone

Question: Do you have data on childrens clothind

Answer: There was no clothing for children. They went naked until they could wear adult clothes.

Question: did ancient greek oracles wear clothes

Answer: Oracle and priest

Pythias--Priestesses of Apollo

Art

Question: did rich poeple and poor people wear different clothes?

Answer: The style did not differ. The jewelry, material, and color differed. The richest wore purple, lesser rich wore red, and the poor wore other colors. The richest wore silk, lesser rich wore cotton and the poor wore wool, linen, and hemp. The richest wore silver jewelry, the less rich wore gold, and the poor wore bronze jewelry.

Question: IM DOING A PROJECT AND I NEED TO KNOW WHAT WERE THE MAIN COLOURS USED FOR ANCIENT GREEK CLOTHES?

Answer: They wore every color of the rainbow. Their dress was much more colorful than they are depicted wearing.

Question: Im doing a project and I need to know how to make a Pelop and chiton as soon as posible!

Answer: peplos, peplos2, a chiton is tied along the top rather than pinned as is the peplos. The peplos is made of a heavy material and the chiton is a light material.

Question: what kind of belts did women in ancient greece wear?

Answer: They wore a thong, rope, or cord as a belt. How this is fastened is not at all clear. I would assume it was tied, but the fastening is not exposed. It seems like it is just wound around itself as no knot is evident.

Question: Who made the clothes in ancient Athens?

Answer: Most of the clothes were made by women.

Question: what clothes did greek men and women wear during the Classical period

Answer: Mainly women wore chitons and men wore tunics or himations but both wore tunics, chitons, peplos, and himations.

Question: What did girls about the age of 11 wear

Answer: A girl of 11 was considered a woman and wore woman's clothes.

• Young Girl with Dove
• Mace donian
• Mun ich GL 490

Question: do you have any pictures of girls today dressed up in greek clothing? for like a costume or something?

Answer: Costumes

Question: Did women wear panties?

Answer: No they did not. Underwear was developed in the ninteenth century for reasons of health.

Question: could you please point me in the right direction to find patterns on how to make togas

Answers: No. The ancient Greeks did not make or wear togas.

Question: Did the style of clothing differ for each of the social classes

Answer: No.

Question: clothes did greek wear for summer and winter

Answer: During the summer Greeks may not have worn any clothes. During the winter they wore a peplos over their chiton. For more warmth they threw a himation over that.

Question: what cape colors did noble wemone were.

Answer: Ancient Greek women wore every color of the rainbow. But purple was very expensive and only the very rich could wear it. Red was less expensive so it was more common than purple but less common than other colors.

Question: how were the clothes coloured & which pigments were used?

Answer: The fabrics were dyed with natural stains. These stains are made from bark, fungi, some vegetables, insects, and snails. Except for some very bright colors, almost any color was possible.

Question: Can you show me a picture of the mantle that they wore in that era?

Answer:

• Three youths in mantles
• Woman with mantle
• The Horai share a single mantle
• She wears a chiton and a diadem. He wears a mantle and a wreath.

Question: What is a himation?

Answer: Essentially, it is a large scarf worn over the shoulders.

Question: What is the word used for fashonable clothing?

Answer: I have no information on this question.

Question: bra

Answer: Bra's were not worn in ancient Greece. If a female's breasts needed support then a triangular bandage was worn.

Question: what kind of clothes did the noble people wear?

Answer: Everyone wore the same clothes style. Color was important. Purple was the most expensive while red was second. Other colors were less expensive. Silk was the most expensive fabric, with cotton second. Wool and lined were cheaper. But mainly higher class people wore expensive jewelry.

Question: what did Greek women wear for there wedding?

Answer: A red peplos or chiton.

Question: what did Hades wear?

Answer: A deity can wear nothing or anything and they can change their appearance at will. They were not recognized by their looks but rather by the symbols that they carried. An ancient artist pictured them as handsome and richly dressed versions of local people.

Question: What is/are corthornous

Answer: Buskin (Brodequin, Corthurnus, Korthornos) is a high-healed boot that came high up the leg. It was laced up the front. This boot seems to have affected the actor's walk and was commonly used in the theater.

Athena and Hades in the Heraklion museum on Crete

Question: What was considered attractive on women in ancient Greece that would be considered UNattractive on women today?

Answer: None of the gowns, peplos or chiton, are considered attractive today and young women will not wear them. Dressing without a bra is also considered unattractive today but the ancient women did it. Tatoos are attractive today but no Greek woman ever wore them.

Question: My daughter is studying Ancient Greece from 2500 - 3000 B.C.E. She had to make a chiton from this time period. We sewed one last night out of pink material, and today her teacher said that during this time period ONLY white chitons were worn. Is this correct? In our research it seems that every color was worn. What color chitons were worn during this time?

Answer: Chitons were only worn from about 500 BCE to 100 BCE. Before this women commonly wore skin skirts or flounced skirts. Breasts were left uncovered. Skin skirts were never white. Even chitons were rarely white. Pink is not a good choice because red was an expensive color. The most likely colors are earth colors. There is little information about the dress during the period 3000-2500 BCE (5000 to 4500 years ago).

Greek dress was assumed white because the Greeks had white marble to work with. After the marble statues had been around for a few hundred years the white color of the marble was all that was seen even though the statues were originally painted. The chromatic paintings from ancient Greece are all lost. It was also believed that the white color suited their ideal attitude toward life. In fact white, to the ancient Greeks, was the color of death. The frescos from the Minoan culture preceeding classical Greece are quite colorful: Minoan dress

Question: What are the differences between the diplax, the himation and the ampechonion? I have read all your information and scrutinised many photographs, but cannot discern real differences.

Answer: A diplax is a double folded mantle or cloak. 'Himation' is a more general term. Specificially it is an outer garment , cloak or mantle worn above a chiton, but it also refers to clothes, in general. An ampechone is a fine upper garment.

Question: I am looking for anything about the use of encaustic technique in ancient Aegean area, and if any on fabrics. Did they use any kind of silk?

Material was decorated with designs but I do not know how it was done. More than likely is embroidery, which Homer mentions.

Silk was common in ancient Greece. Most of the silk came from China on the silk road. An exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum in New York deals with this. They exhibit some of the things that Greece traded for silk. It seems unlikely that the silk that came to Greece was decorated because we see no Oriental designs amongst the pictures of garments that were made. The filmy garments that are common in Greek art are most likely silk. But there was some native silk produced from local insects. This was generally inferior to the silk from China.

Here are some links about this:
• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137%3Ahead%3D%23633
• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/image?lookup=1990.01.1883
• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/image?lookup=1992.06.0270
• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/image?lookup=1990.01.1887

Question: Were the Ancient Greeks' clothing simliar to those of the Ancient Romans? What did the men and women wear at night? Can you show me a picture of a typical men and women nightgown or pajamas..whatever they had? Thanks. Please try to email the answer back to me.

Answer: The Greek Culture was one that was very fluid and adaptable. Clothing styles and construction changed dramatically over time. During the end of the classical Greek period their influence was wide and many people followed their custom. At this time the fashions of both cultures were similar. But as you move away from these times forward or back the fashions differ more and more.

• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/image?lookup=Perseus:image:1992.11.0272 sleeping Maenad
• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/image?lookup=1992.09.0228 bride on a bed
• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/image?lookup=1990.14.0270 marriage bed
• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/image?lookup=Perseus:image:1992.09.0692 couple having sex on a cushion
• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/image?lookup=1992.06.0970 view of a bed
• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/image?lookup=Perseus:image:1998.01.0086 beds at a banquet

  The above images relate to sleeping and beds. The suggestion is that wealthy people slept on beds on long legs high off the floor away from vermin. Less wealthy slept on cushions and the least wealthy slept on furs or blankets as Odysseus did in the Odyssey. No special bed clothing is evident. In the warm weather they slept in the nude and in the cold weather they slept in their street clothing. It would have been rare for people to sleep alone. Several family members would sleep in the same room. Or a mistress would sleep on a bed while her servants slept on the floor. Men seemed to prefer the women to be nude in bed so they could have sex with them easier. The pictures represent not so much actual practice as what the artist considered ideal. Maenads are often pictured nude and sleeping because they were then available for sex. This cannot be considered the typical situation for women as they normally slept together in one room.

  Question: How do classical Athens women (4th or 5th century in Athens) dress accordingly to social class? (upper, middle, lower, slaves). How do their hairstyle, dresses, jewelry indicate which social class they are from? Would you please provide a couple of pictures with links if possible?

  Answer: Everyone wore the same style of clothing. Class was indicated by hair length (slaves wore short hair), color of clothing (purple was very expensive, red was expensive, other bright colors were cheaper. Dull earth colors were cheapest), Type of fabric ( Silk was ost expensive, cotton next, linen and wool least expensive.), and jewely (Silver was most expensive, gold next, then brass, then copper. How the women adorned herserself reflected her personality. Greek women had many options.

  Question: what were their clothing made of? Did the patterns on their clothe mean anything if so what did the patterns mean?

  Answer: Mostly the ancient Greek clothing was made of wool. During the Bronze Age and earlier many clothing items were made of skins. Also linen made from flax was common. When the Greeks were able to trade by the sea they brought cotton from Egypt. This was more expensive. But the most expensive was silk. Native silk was available and some silk came from China over the silk road. But the Greeks had no idea of the Chinese and the Chinese had no idea of the Greeks. Most of the silk probably came to Greece via the Phoenecians. They may have also gotten silk by trad with the eastern edge of the Black Sea. The main stops on the silk road were Damascus, Bagdad, Tehran, Merv, Burkahara, Samarkind, Kashar, Hotan, Lop Nur, Dun huang, and finally Xi Oan. I do not have the old names of these cities.

  None of the clothing from ancient Greece has survived. All we have are pictures of clothing on vase paintings. What we see there are images just like the others on vase paintings. They seemed to have preferred illustrations of their myths. But the ancient Greek painting is remarkable for the breadth of its subject matter and included many images of everyday life. But they did prefer paintings of people to paintings of their environment.

  Question: Did the ancient greeks wear different clothes for holidays than they usually did? if so, what kind of clothes did they wear?

  Answer: This seems very likely. Some people had no clothes and were slaves. Many had only one change of clothes and even slept in them. The wealthier people, who had more than one change of clothes wore their best. This was especially true if there was a procession involved. Some clothing was sacred and that might be worn by the priests or priestesses. The following picture shows some people in a procession.

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