The Mourning Athena relief with Athena wearing a plain doric overfold chiton, c. 460 BCSo-called "Exaltation de la Fleur" (exaltation of the flower), fragments from a secondary grave stele: two women wearing a peplos and kekryphalos (hairnet), hold poppy or pomegranate flowers, and maybe a small bag of seeds. Parian marble, c. 470–460 BC. From Pharsalos, Thessaly.
A peplos (Greek: ὁ πέπλος) is a body-length garment established as typical attire for women in ancient Greece by c. 500 BC, during the late Archaic and Classical period. It was a long, rectangular cloth with the top edge folded down about halfway, so that what was the top of the rectangle was now draped below the waist, and the bottom of the rectangle was at the ankle. One side of the peplos could be left open, or pinned or sewn together.[1] In Latin and in a Roman context, it could be called a palla.[2]
It should not be confused with the Ionic chiton, which was a piece of fabric folded over and sewn together along the longer side to form a tube. The Classical garment is represented in Greek vase painting from the 5th century BC and in the metopes of temples in the Doric order.
Spartan women continued to wear the peplos much later in history than other Greek cultures. It was also shorter and with slits on the side causing other Greeks to call them phainomērídes (φαινομηρίδες), the "thigh-showers".
^"Ancient Greek Dress". Heilbronn Timeline of Art History, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–2013. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
^Radicke, Jan (2022). 3 palla – (1) precious cloak and (2) 'peplos'. Berlin: De Gruyter. pp. 285–298. doi:10.1515/9783110711554-019. ISBN 978-3-11-071155-4.
Panathenaea peplos, from the Parthenon frieze The Peplos Kore, colour reconstruction of statue of c. 530 BC Athena wearing a luxurious peplos, one that...
name, peplos, is based on the popular archaic Greek gown for women. When the statue was found it was initially thought that she was wearing a peplos, although...
shoulders, facing down, to hold the chiton or peplos in place. Fibulae were also used to pin the chiton, peplos or chlamys together.[page needed] These fibulae...
surface of the virion has been referred to as the "peplos". The term is derived from the Greek peplos, "a loose outer garment", "robe or cloak", or "woman['s]...
There were two ways the peplos was made: it was either a smaller peplos made by women, or a larger one made by men. The smaller peplos was woven annually by...
Panathenaea young girls known as arrephoroi would carry a specially woven peplos robe to place on the wooden cult image of Athena located in the Erechtheum...
sash, or girdle might secure the waist. Peplos, Chitons The inner tunic was a peplos or chiton. The peplos was worn by women. It was usually a heavier...
Fortuny became famous for his pleated dresses, the "Delphos" and the related "Peplos", adding a short tunic layer meant to resemble the ancient Greek apoptygma...
Peplos railway station (Greek: Σιδηροδρομικός Σταθμός Πέπλος, romanized: Sidirodromikós stathmós Peplos) is a railway station that serves the town of...
cloth. This frieze often is interpreted as the presentation of Athena's peplos, perhaps by the arrhephoroi, but debate exists regarding who the figures...
that the overfall of Athena's peplos hides most of her girdle from the front view, whereas the overfall of the peplos on Eirene has a short overfall...
undergarment (worn under the jersey) for baseball teams in MLB. Chiton Peplos Quinion, Michael. "Cardigan". World Wide Words. Retrieved 13 January 2013...
art which showed women wearing loose fitting rectangular tunics, known as peplos or the more common chiton, which were belted under the bust, providing support...
example of anasyrma, it depicts a partially draped woman, raising her light peplos to uncover her hips and buttocks, and looking back and down over her shoulder...
The kolpos (Greek κόλπος, breast) is the blousing of a peplos, chiton or tunic in Ancient Greek clothing, whereby excess length of the material hangs folded...
clothes and were rarely seen outside the house, Spartan women wore dresses (peplos) slit up the side to allow freer movement and moved freely about the city...
marble and bears traces of red and yellow paint. Athena is dressed in a peplos belted with a zone in the form of two snakes; over this she wears the aegis...
Salvation in its second season, playing the role of Alycia. "Melia Kreiling | Peplos ideas". peplosideas.com. Retrieved 2019-05-05. "Contributor Dancer/Melia...
four Arrephoroi and that two supervised the weaving of the Panathenaic peplos. Pausanias, 1.27.3. Joan Breton Connelly, Portrait of a priestess: Women...
Hellenistic period (c. 750–30 BC). It was usually worn over a chiton and/or peplos, but was made of heavier drape and played the role of a cloak or shawl....
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