Likewise, the two bowknots replace the fibulae that would have held together an ancient peplos. |
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Leaving Calandra in the hands of Xan, I wrapped a himation around myself and dressed in a peplos. |
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I stepped on her peplos so she wouldn't be able to pull herself up and run away. |
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She began to fidget, clutching her peplos and grasping it tightly until her knuckles turned white. |
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The long blonde curls piled high on her head with glorious cascades of golden silk falling against the top of her classical Greek peplos. |
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Her arms were scraped, her himation had torn off, and her peplos was tearing. |
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So expert advice was available to Durer on how to adapt the astronomical devices from Geometry's peplos to more contemporary interests. |
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Clad in the white peplos of a Greek goddess and elegantly coiffed, she gazes unemotional and aloof at the grisly head on her platter. |
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Athena wears her high-crested Attic helmet, a colorful and embroidered peplos, and her aegis. |
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Here the goddess wears her high-crested helmet, and a himation replaces her aegis over the peplos. |
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Her arms were scraped and her himation had torn off and her peplos was tearing. |
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I dried myself the best I could and was hesitant to wrap myself in the peplos and then the himation and finally the veil. |
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Her himation is pulled up over her head, and covers much of her peplos, which is decorated with a dotted lozenge. |
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Women of Athens wove the peplos or robe to be presented to the statue of Athena Polias on the Acropolis, embroidered with a scene of the battle with the Giants. |
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The peplos gown, a common garment in ancient Greece, was worn folded over at the top for a blouson effect that covered the waist. |
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I was still dressed in my peplos and himation but they were soiled. |
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I dressed in my favorite blue peplos with a belt of gold rope. |
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Putting the peplos on the talisman was an act of simple magic. |
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The peplos was an additional garment worn by women. |
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Here, Stuart and Revett surmised, was a depiction of the culmination of the Panathenaea: the presentation of a new woollen cloak, or peplos, as a dedication to the goddess. |
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When worn with other types of dress, the peplos was the outermost garment. |
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Scholars have suggested that the purpose of statues such as the Peplos Kore and other korai was to serve as votive offerings, perhaps in this case to the goddess Athena. |
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