DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.1021#0240
190 THE MYCENAEAN AGE
forth a golden lady, if we may borrow Homer's epithet for
Aphrodite, — an epithet chosen, we may believe, not only
for her beauty's sake, but for the radiant splendor of her
apparel. And, indeed, it was doubtless from Aphrodite's
native Syria the Mycenaeans learned to overload themselves
with gold. At least the Hebrew women appear to have
followed the same flashy fashion, as we may gather from
the Scriptures:* " Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul,
who clothed you in scarlet, who put on ornaments of gold
upon your apparel."
1 2 Samuel i. 24.
forth a golden lady, if we may borrow Homer's epithet for
Aphrodite, — an epithet chosen, we may believe, not only
for her beauty's sake, but for the radiant splendor of her
apparel. And, indeed, it was doubtless from Aphrodite's
native Syria the Mycenaeans learned to overload themselves
with gold. At least the Hebrew women appear to have
followed the same flashy fashion, as we may gather from
the Scriptures:* " Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul,
who clothed you in scarlet, who put on ornaments of gold
upon your apparel."
1 2 Samuel i. 24.