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2. Clothing in ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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   Ampyx (ἄμπυχ) was a headband worn by Greek women to confine the hair, passing round the front of the head and fastening behind. It appears generally to have consisted of a plate of gold or silver, often richly worked and adorned with precious stones. [86] Sphendone (σφενδόνη) was a fastening for the hair used by the Greek women. [87]

3. Theia - Wikipedia

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   'divine', also rendered Thea or Thia), also called Euryphaessa (Ancient Greek: Εὐρυφάεσσα, "wide-shining"), is one of the twelve Titans, the children of the earth goddess Gaia and the sky god Uranus in Greek mythology. She is the Greek goddess of sight and vision, and by extension the goddess who endowed gold, silver, and gems with ...

4. Chiton (garment) - Wikipedia

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   The Ionic chiton could also be made from linen or wool and was draped without the fold and held in place from neck to wrist by several small pins or buttons.. Herodotus states the dress of the women in Athens was changed from the Doric peplos to the Ionic chiton after the widows of the men killed on military expedition to Aegina stabbed and killed the sole survivor with their peplos pins, each ...

5. Greek dress - Wikipedia

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   This dress became the usual attire of all Christian townswomen in both Ottoman Empire-occupied and liberated Balkan lands as far north as Belgrade. Otto adopted the fustanella for his personal guard, still in use by the Evzones, members of the Presidential Guard. Since then, the Greek fashion follows the European standards. However completely ...

6. History of cleavage - Wikipedia

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   Ancient Greek women adorned their cleavage with a long pendant necklace called a kathema. [9] The ancient Greek goddess Hera is described in the Iliad to have worn something like an early version of a push-up bra festooned with "brooches of gold" and "a hundred tassels" to increase her cleavage to divert Zeus from the Trojan War. [10]

7. Chrysus - Wikipedia

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   In his Isthmian Odes, Pindar also wrote: . Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else, [2]. Furthermore, a scholium on those lines wrote ἐκ Θείας καὶ Ὑπερίονος ὁ Ἥλιος, ἐκ δὲ Ἡλίου ὁ χρυσός, [3] denoting a special connection of Theia, the goddess of sight and brilliance, with gold as ...