Her garments are the basic chiton, peplos or stola. From Wordnik.com. [Fashion: How Movies Corrupt History « Colleen Anderson] Reference
The lady of the Greek peplos stared at him in rebuke. From Wordnik.com. [This Scepter'd Isle]
The peplos was not customarily offered at the Parthenon but at the Erektheion. From Wordnik.com. [Looking for the Lost Greeks] Reference
It's peplos time for both sets, although my AS persona has a particular liking for bling. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Arthur: From History to Legend, by Christopher Gidlow. Book review] Reference
Tuesday I toddled off to Textile Guild and worked on a couple of peplos and hemmed a linen hankie to embroider. From Wordnik.com. [(Oh, and I still have a zombie eye)] Reference
The young girls handed the new peplos to the priestess, and the priests began to slaughter the rest of the animals. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
Several years later a large woolen garment, or peplos (shown), was discovered near the place where the body was found. From Wordnik.com. [Bodies of the Bogs: Clothing and Hair Styles] Reference
First came the young girls carrying a small peplos, a new dress for the sacred and ancient olive wood statue of Athena. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
At the marriage all the gods were present; Harmonia received as bridal gifts a peplos worked by Athena and a necklace made by. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
The Museum of Classical Archaeology in Cambridge has a nice plaster reconstruction of the peplos Kore (a kore is a young woman, a peplos a garment). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2003-09-01] Reference
It was the early image of Athena, not the Athena Parthenos by Phidias, that was annually washed in the sea, and for which the peplos was woven by the chosen women of Athens. From Wordnik.com. [Religion and Art in Ancient Greece] Reference
I could see, even from a distance, the city's gift to Athena, the large peplos, a cloth woven by professional weavers with battle scenes of the gods defeating the race of giants. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
And now -- now he even raised the hem of her peplos to his lips. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
The procession of the peplos was formed at daybreak in the Potters '. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture] Reference
His name and that of his father, Antigonus, were woven into the sacred peplos. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture] Reference
Acropolis Paulus watched the arrival of the procession bringing this year's peplos to Athena. From Wordnik.com. [Roads from Rome] Reference
Her long robe and peplos, of the finest white wool, also gave her an air of distinction which suited the circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
The bar girls, he noted with interest, were revealingly costumed in pseudo-peplos of a purplish, cob-webby, silkish material. From Wordnik.com. [Man of Many Minds] Reference
Center of all the marchers is the glittering peplos, raised like a sail upon a wheeled barge of state -- "the ship of Athena.". From Wordnik.com. [A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life] Reference
Upon the Acropolis, while the old peplos is piously withdrawn from the image and the new one substituted, there is a prodigious sacrifice. From Wordnik.com. [A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life] Reference
The peplos was not borne by hands, but was suspended from the mast of a ship, upon wheels, which some writers say was moved by machinery placed underground. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture] Reference
This peplos was made of crocus-colored stuff, on which the figures of the gods engaged in their contests with the giants appeared in beautiful, rich embroidery. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture] Reference
You let them hang just as you put them on, and my master's work is full of folds and little lines in the robe and the peplos -- But I have staid too long already. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
She also bent forward with a natural movement to examine the artistic work on a silver vase, and as while doing so her peplos fell over his hand, she pressed it tenderly. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
The peplos was of the same color and decorated to match; costly clasps of mosaic, representing full-blown roses and set in oval gold settings, fastened it on the shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
(and Greece), including the peplos, c pull pants down. From Wordnik.com. [Lingerie and Lingerie Products and Services. Online Lingerie Shopping and Design. Lingerie RSS Feed Available.] Reference
I’ve been reading Eco and have a slew of new words: peplos. From Wordnik.com. [More Vocabulary from Eco « So Many Books] Reference
"worn in much the same manner as the peplos on early Greek female figures.". From Wordnik.com. [History of Phoenicia] Reference
I neber seiz peplos I no!. From Wordnik.com. [CURIOSITY - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
The "girl" offering the peplos may be a boy. From Wordnik.com. [Looking for the Lost Greeks] Reference
Of her zond peplos shook. From Wordnik.com. [Pygmalion] Reference
Till from the waist the peplos falling down. From Wordnik.com. [Ballad of Reading Gaol] Reference
Touch lingeringly the hem of Athena's peplos. From Wordnik.com. [Roads from Rome] Reference
Till from the waist the peplos falling down105. From Wordnik.com. [Charmides] Reference
Pandora’s peplos was cleaved neatly in half. From Wordnik.com. [Sparks] Reference
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