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Peplos

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A named Greek woman's pinned wool garment of later classical dress-talk. Not a chiton, not a himation, and not a toga.

Hellenic religion

  • Peplos appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias records peplos dedications among the great gifts to Athena and other goddesses. A named peplos in that periegesis, not chiton as the lighter tunic and not a Roman stola dump.

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

    appears in · sourced · documented

  • Peplos is sacred to Athena.

    Iliad 6 has the Trojan women carry a peplos to Athena’s temple on the citadel as a dedicated offering for the goddess’s favor. A named peplos sacred to Athena in that epic, not every later dress-cloth and not Minerva as a Roman flatten.

    from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)

    sacred to · sourced · documented

  • Peplos is used in Hellenic religion.

    The Iliad seats the peplos as women’s worked robe and as the Book 6 temple offering cloth in Trojan rite. A named Homeric peplos in dress and dedication use, not chiton as identity and not sacred_to→athena alone.

    from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)

    used in · sourced · documented

Roman religion

  • Peplos appears in Roman religion.

    Virgil’s Aeneid Book 1 seats the peplum the Trojan women bear to Minerva’s temple in the Troy tableau at Carthage. A named peplos in that epic, not chiton as a tunic flatten and not toga as civic dress already walked.

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

    appears in · sourced · documented

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