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Chlamys

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A named Greek short cloak of later classical dress-talk, pinned at one shoulder. Not a himation, not a chiton, and not a toga.

Hellenic religion

  • Chlamys appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias names the chlamys among short cloaks of travelers and youths in Greek cult and monument speech. A named chlamys in that periegesis, not himation as the larger wrap and not chiton as the tunic.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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Roman religion

  • Chlamys appears in Roman religion.

    Virgil’s Aeneid Book 4 seats the pictured chlamys Dido wears when she rides out to the hunt with Aeneas. A named chlamys in that epic, not peplos as the temple-robe and not himation as a larger wrap dump.

    from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

    appears in · sourced · documented

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