Gardner, Percy: The principles of Greek art (London, 1924)

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PRINCIPLES OF GREEK ART

CHAP.

The case of women in the great art of Greece after the Per-
sian wars is much more complicated. Young girls and the
virgin goddesses, Athena and Artemis, usually wore the Dorian
chiton, sometimes with an overdress. In the middle of the
fifth century we find on vases the Doric and Ionic dresses
freely intermingled in the case of groups of girls. There is
something of the kind on an Attic krater from Falerii here
figured (Fig. 40).1 But here, as in later art commonly, though

Fig. 40.

the dress of some of the girls is in principle Ionic, it is in fact
between the two types, as the undergarment is neither sleeveless
nor with sewn sleeves, but has sleeves made by joining the edges
of the garment with brooches. And the overgarment is put on
in the Dorian way; that is, held by its own weight and not fas-
tened on the shoulder by a fibula. But in other cases the over-
garment is fastened with the fibula, and in others we have the
simple Doric chiton, with overfall and kolpos. We may cite as

1 Furtwiingler and Reichhold, Griechische Vasenmalerei, PI. 17.