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The Bronze Statuettes of Athletic Spartan Girl are bronze figurines depicting a Spartan young woman wearing a short tunic in a presumably running pose. These statuettes are considered Spartan manufacture dating from the 6th century B.C., [1] and they were used as decorative attachments to ritual vessels as votive dedications, such as a cauldron, [2] suggested by the bronze rivet on their feet. [3]
The Spartan army was the principle ground force of Sparta. It stood at the center of the ancient Greek city-state , consisting of citizens trained in the disciplines and honor of a warrior society . [ 1 ]
It is possible that Spartan girls exercised naked, because Archaic Spartan art portrays naked girls, unlike the art of other areas of Greece. [11] Girls might have competed in gymnopaedia, the Spartan festival of naked youths. [27] They also competed in running races for various festivals, of which the most prestigious was the Heraean Games. [28]
Greek travelling costume, incorporating a chiton, a chlamys, sandals, and a petasos hat hanging in the back. The chiton (plural: chitones) was a garment of light linen consisting of sleeves and long hemline. [2] [6] It consisted of a wide, rectangular tube of material secured along the shoulders and lower arms by a series of fasteners.
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Brass-metal buttons were used for the majority of uniforms. The trousers were straight with side-seam pipings in branch colours, designed to cover the ankle lace-boots. However, on campaign the majority of soldiers found this to be a cumbersome arrangement and used cloth puttees or stuffed the trouser bottoms into their boots to hold them tight.
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 ...