object

Sandal

Objects

A named open sole with straps of long practice across many houses. Not a caliga, not a moccasin, and not published geta.

Also known as Open sandal

Hellenic religion

  • Sandal appears in Hellenic religion.

    The Iliad names ordinary sandals, the strapped soles of Achaean dress, among the poem’s gear. A named Hellenic sandal in that epic, not Hermes’ immortal talaria from the Hymn to Hermes.

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

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Iliad · Homer

    Homer, Iliad.