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Depictions of ancient Greek women's attire of the type that strongly influenced late 1790's clothing styles (especially in Paris). Five women shown with a belt around the outside of their garments worn fairly high:

Upper left - Bacchante, from J. Moyr Smith's Ancient Greek Female Costume (1882).

Upper right -- "Bacchante presenting the sacred fillet" from Thomas Hope's Costumes of the Ancients (reprinted as Costumes of the Greeks and Romans) (1812).

Lower left: Depiction of goddess Hebe, from J. Moyr Smith's Ancient Greek Female Costume (1882).

Center -- Illustration from Georg Autenrieth's Homeric Dictionary (1876), intended to illustrate the words euzônos, euplokamis, zônê, kallizônos, kalliplokamos, kalumma, and kaluptrê

Lower Right -- Greek statue (ca. 300 B.C.?) from Adolf Furtwängler's Die Sammlung Sabouroff (1887).
Date 1812, 1876, 1882, 1887
Source Thomas Hope's Costumes of the Greeks and Romans, Autenrieth's Homeric Dictionary, J. Moyr Smith's Ancient Greek Female Costume, Adolf Furtwängler's Die Sammlung Sabouroff
Author Thomas Hope, Georg Autenrieth, J. Moyr Smith, Adolf Furtwängler
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For another illustration from the Thomas Hope book, see File:Man woman onion ancient vase.gif

For another illustration of this general type, see Image:Fig5Cingulum_d'apres_une_statue_grecque.gif

For an ancient Classical statue with similar attire, see Image:Autun rolin statuette.jpg

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