How To Use Peplos In A Sentence
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It no longer sounds implausible when ancient Greeks write about the intricate textiles made by legendary weavers like Penelope and Arachne, or about historical weavers, like the women of Athens who created a new dress, or peplos, for the statue of Athena Polias on the Acropolis.
Women Artists Win!
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I cried, cursing the skirts of the peplos as I ran.
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Her arms were scraped, her himation had torn off, and her peplos was tearing.
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I was still dressed in my peplos and himation but they were soiled.
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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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Putting the peplos on the talisman was an act of simple magic.
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I wrapped a himation around myself and dressed in a peplos.
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I pulled off my peplos angrily and threw it aside.
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I was about to stop her when she dropped her peplos.
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I tried to imagine what the women of Ephesus wore: Grecian chitons, himations, and peplos, most likely.
Holly Would Dream
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As Sarah Pomeroy has noted, Spartan women always had a weapon to hand since, when they wore clothes, they favoured an old-fashioned heavy peplos which needed to be fastened at the shoulders with sharp fibulae.
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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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I felt his tears through the thin linen of my peplos.
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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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And in fact, with Roman and Greek clothing, the natural drape of a peplos could have a very low neckline and an open side right up to the waist to boot.
Fashion: How Movies Corrupt History « Colleen Anderson
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Tuesday I toddled off to Textile Guild and worked on a couple of peplos and hemmed a linen hankie to embroider.
(Oh, and I still have a zombie eye)
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Picking up the skirts of her peplos, she ran towards me.
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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 garments are the basic chiton, peplos or stola.
Fashion: How Movies Corrupt History « Colleen Anderson
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Likewise, the two bowknots replace the fibulae that would have held together an ancient peplos.
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The sky was bright; so were the girls, each in her festal dress, the peplos damp-pleated into tiny clinging folds, and fastened on the shoulders with gold brooches; the himation draped across, often an heirloom, with borders of six months 'work; hair freshly washed and waved, combed down over back and breasts.
The Praise Singer
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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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Here the goddess wears her high-crested helmet, and a himation replaces her aegis over the 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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“But Gemmy, like every cartoon heroine, was dressed in a soft tunic, a sort of peplos that bared her shoulders and arms and part of her bosom.” callipygian.
More Vocabulary from Eco « So Many Books
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It's peplos time for both sets, although my AS persona has a particular liking for bling.
The Reign of Arthur: From History to Legend, by Christopher Gidlow. Book review
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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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Her arms were scraped and her himation had torn off and her peplos was tearing.
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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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I shrugged off the peplos on my right shoulder.
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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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I was still dressed in my peplos and himation but they were soiled.
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Scholars have suggested that the purpose of statues such as the Peplos Kore and other korai (the plural form of the word) was to serve as votive offerings, perhaps in this case to the goddess Athena.
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We do not know the exact order in which all these things happened; but it is believed that the procession of the peplos was the crowning glory of it all, and was celebrated on the final day.
A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
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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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Athena wears her high-crested Attic helmet, a colorful and embroidered peplos, and her aegis.
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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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July 5, 2009 at 12:45 am iz bein ruf…. dat purty much wai i haz bein goon. fambli got splited up las novemba wif spoose movin to skedadle acause ub da eck-onomy. fishykitteh n I staid in Orygun sos she cud finish middl skool dat eneded wif a massive teacha fail…. gascat wuz in colomorado but gotted sic n two mani peplos preyed awn himz inosence.
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Her garments are the basic chiton, peplos or stola.
Fashion: How Movies Corrupt History « Colleen Anderson
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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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She began to fidget, clutching her peplos and grasping it tightly until her knuckles turned white.
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I dressed in my favorite blue peplos with a belt of gold rope.
