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  2. 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 ...

  3. Peplos - Wikipedia

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    It should not be confused with the Ionic chiton, which was a piece of fabric folded over and sewn together along the longer side to form a tube. The Classical garment is represented in Greek vase painting from the 5th century BC and in the metopes of temples in the Doric order.

  4. Chiton - Wikipedia

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    Larvae of chitons: First image is the trochophore, second is in metamorphosis, third is an immature adult. Chitons have separate sexes, and fertilization is usually external. The male releases sperm into the water, while the female releases eggs either individually, or in a long string. In most cases, fertilization takes place either in the ...

  5. Classical order - Wikipedia

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    The Ionic order is also marked by an entasis, a curved tapering in the column shaft. A column of the Ionic order is nine times more tall than its lower diameter. The shaft itself is eight diameters high. The architrave of the entablature commonly consists of three stepped bands (fasciae). The frieze comes without the Doric triglyph and metope.

  6. Himation - Wikipedia

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    It was usually worn over a chiton and/or peplos, but was made of heavier drape and played the role of a cloak or shawl. [2] When the himation was used alone, without a chiton, it served both as a chiton and as a cloak. [2] The himation was markedly less voluminous than the Roman toga. Many vase paintings depict women wearing a himation as a ...

  7. Ancient Greek dialects - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Greek in classical antiquity, before the development of the common Koine Greek of the Hellenistic period, was divided into several varieties.. Most of these varieties are known only from inscriptions, but a few of them, principally Aeolic, Doric, and Ionic, are also represented in the literary canon alongside the dominant Attic form of literary Greek.

  8. Fluting (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Despite Ionic columns of a given height being slimmer than Doric ones, they have more flutes, with 24 being settled on as the standard, after early experiments. [24] These took the number as high as 48 in some columns in the second building of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus in Turkey, one of the earliest "really large Greek temples", of about ...

  9. Acanthochitonidae - Wikipedia

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    Acanthochitonidae chitons are found in a variety of marine habitats, including rocky intertidal zones, coral reefs, and seagrass beds. They are also found in deep sea environments, with some species occurring as deep as 3,000 meters. Acanthochitonidae chitons are known to be active grazers, feeding primarily on algae and detritus.