This page links to scanned copies of the plates from Ancient Greek Female Costume: Illustrated by One Hundred and Twelve Plates and Numerous Smaller Illustrations with Explanatory Letterpress, and Descriptive Passages from the Works of Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Euripides, Aristophanes, Theocritus, Xenophon, Lucian, and other Greek Authors. Selected by J. Moyr Smith (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1882)
1.Figure wearing diplax or mantle doubled over the chiton poderes, or chiton reaching to the feet.
2. Figure with long-sided chiton.
3. Figure with diploidion or bib over peplos and chiton poderes.
4. Figure with ampechonion or outer garment, and sleeveless chiton buttoned to give the appearance of sleeves.
5. Priestess of Demeter (Ceres) with long-sided diploidion or ampechonion.
6. Side view of figure with detached diploidion.
7. Demeter (Ceres) with clasp-fastened chiton and veil (kredemnon).
8 , 9 , 10 . Girdle with clasp-fastened chitons; the upper part is doubled over, and the girdle goes over the two thicknesses of the cloth.
11. Priestess of Demeter wearing simplest form of chiton girt at the waist; the upper part hangs over in front as a diploidion.
12. Female with chiton arranged with long sides, upper part folded over in front.
13. Priestess with chiton and veil (kredemnon).
14 , 15 . Figures wearing chitons with upper part folded over as a bib, and fastened at the shoulders by clasp.
16. Bacchante with sacred fillet and thyrsus; chiton folded over and girt over the two thicknesses of cloth.
17. Figure with chiton, upper part hanging over to give the effect of a second garment.
18. Girl with chiton made of one large piece of cloth; it is embroidered on the upper or diploidion part to represent a bib.
19. Bacchante with the crotals, dancing, showing the opening at the sides of the garment.
20. Female dancer with himation only, called, when thus worn, achiton, i. e. without chiton.
21. Bacchante with thyrsus, wears chiton over girt diploidion, and scarf (mantile).
22. Bacchante with crotals, wears single chiton without doubled part, and scarf (mantile).
23. Bacchante with torches, wearing himation, or cloak.
24. Bacchante with rod of sesamum, wearing chiton and himation.
25. Female flute-player, wearing chiton and himation.
26. Mourner, wears chiton, and has part of himation wrapped round the head as a veil.
27. Electra, with shorn hair, wears dark embroidered chiton and himation.
28. Canephorus, i. e. maiden who bore a basket containing offerings for Athene in the solemn procession of Panathenaea at Athens. Wearing probably white and gold embroidered chiton and himation.
29. Lady with mirror, wears wide-sleeved chiton and himation.
30. Leaning figure, wears chiton and himation.
31. Figure with chiton and himation.
32 , 33 . Figures, each with double chiton, and putting on himation.
34. Leaning figure wearing chiton and himation.
35. Leaning figure wearing himation as achiton, or without chiton.
36. Erato wearing chiton arranged to cover the arm, also a himation.
37. Figure with chiton and himation.
38. Lady with himation, arranged double, diplax or diploid.
39. Here (Juno) wearing himation as a diplax, that is two-ply, the lower only partly covered by the upper ply.
40. Figure wearing himation so as to show the two thicknesses of the cloth (diploid).
41. Figure with chiton and himation.
42. Figure with chiton, himation, and veil (kredemnon).
43. Demeter (Ceres) with the himation worn as a diplax.
44. Demeter (Ceres) with double-girded chiton and himation.
45. Demeter (Ceres) with himation or peplos partly twisted round the body as a girdle, and partially covering the head as a veil.
46. Hygeia with himation or cloak partly twisted round the body as a girdle.
47. Figure with mantle partly girt round the waist.
48. Cybele wears himation worn round the body and over the head as a veil.
49. Clio wears himation enveloping the whole figure.
50. Euterpe with chiton girt at the breast.
51. Muse with wide chiton.
52. Erato, in achiton, that is, with himation serving both chiton and cloak.
53. Low-girded Danaid.
54. Figure wearing double-girded chiton.
55 , 56 . Artemis (Diana) wearing chiton double-girded, and kilted above the knee.
57. Artemis wearing chiton girt up with scarf or peplos.
58. Artemis with skirts let down to the ground; she also wears a veil (parapatasma, skepama, peripetasma, prokalumma) over her; shoulders. In Homer the head veil is called kredemnon.
59. Artemis (Diana) wearing the detached diploidion over the chiton.
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 (see also plate 71).
61. Athene with peplos or himation partly girt round the waist.
62. Athene wearing chiton, upper girt diploidion, and himation or parapatasma hanging from the shoulders.
63. Athene (Minerva) in the diplax.
64. Juno Lanuvina, or Athene, wearing the goat's skin, Aigeê, hence Aegis.
65. 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.
66. Athene. The peplos and diploidion, and the Gorgoned aegis extended as a covering to the arm that holds the shield.
67. The Aeginetan Athene wears diploidion, peplos, and the aegis.
68. Athena wearing aegis with Gorgon's head as a breastplate.
69. a. Torso of Athene, with Gorgoned aegis fastened round the waist by a girdle of lion's skin with head attached. b. Athene of Velletri wearing the diplax. c. Athena with the aegis as a breastplate, with serpent girdle over diploidion-early period.
70. Three representations of Athene in war attire. b shows the aegis, or goat's skin, fastened over the right shoulder, and going diagonally across the body under the left armpit. In c, Athena wears the himation over the aegis.
71. Three representations of Athene in war dress.
72. Two representations of Athene, from early pottery.
73. Eight representations of Athena, various periods.
74. Here (Juno) wearing transparent chiton and two-ply himation or diplax.
75. Three representations of Here (Juno), showing the chiton, himation, and veil (kredemnon).
76. Three representations of Demeter (Ceres).
77. Two representations of Demeter, sitting.
78. Figure of Antiochia, from the statue by Eutychides of Sicyon.
79. Artemis (Diana) wearing long chiton and veil.
80. Three representations of Artemis.
81. Dress of the third period of Greek art history. The chief figures represented are Amphitrite, Hestia, Hermes, Artemis, and Heracles from early painted pottery.
82. The upper line represents Demeter, Hecato, Triptolemus, and others. The lower shows Artemis, Leto, Aphrodite and others, in the early Ionian style of dress.
83. Female dress of the time of Phidias, from the Panathenaean procession on the frieze of the Parthenon.
84. The upper group represents Apollo, Artemis, Heracles, and Athene in early middle style of dress. The lower shows Persephone (inscribed Perophata), Triptolemus, and Demeter, also in early middle style of dress.
85. Upper group shows Aphrodite, Hera, and Demeter, from the early sculpture of the altar of the Twelve Gods. The lower group is of the same early period, and shows various modes of wearing the himation.
86. Upper group shows Aphrodite, Artemis, Hephaistos, and Athene. The lower group shows an uncommon arrangement of the diploidion.
87. The two larger figures are Leto and Artemis. The smaller figures belong to a different time and district, and represent the richly embroidered dresses of the Heroic period.
88. Figures wearing the dress of the Bacchic festivals (Dionysia).
89. Figures in various styles of chitons.
90. Priestess, attendant, and herald style.
91. Artemis, allegorical figure, and Hebe.
92. Various modes of wearing the himation.
93. Chitons and himations.
94. Large himations.
95. Mourning females.
96. Early Lycian or Ionian style of dress.
97. Greek female dressed in monochiton, or in the chiton without himation.
98. Female with lyre and plectrum.
99. Lady with umbrella.
100 , 101 , 102 . Greek ladies sitting.
103. Greek lady and attendants.
104. Greek ladies-earlier style of dress.
105. Aphrodite, Muse, Artemis.
106. Artemis, Demeter, Aphrodite.
107. Here attired in various ways.
108. Figures of the Muses and of Artemis.
109 , 110 , 111 , 112 . Dancing females, showing various arrangements of the chiton, diploidion, and himation.
