peplos , also: peplus

In Greece, the peplos was mostly worn before the 5th century.

The peplos was a large square piece of cloth.

The lady of the Greek peplos stared at him in rebuke.

The peplos was worn in such a way that the opening was on the right side of the body.

Each year a newly woven peplos was dedicated to Athena.

The upper part of the peplos was folded down to the waist to form an apoptygma.

This might be hidden again by the apoptygma, the loose, folded down top of the peplos.

Usually a belt was worn over the peplos.

For a moment it seemed that nothing had changed, but then a woman had magically appeared in a gold peplos.

Several statues of women in the peplos show the same unbroken or scarcely broken skirt.

The peplos was draped and open on one side of the body, like the Doric chiton.

The peplos was a garment worn by women.

A long cloak called a himation was worn over the peplos or chlamys.

This is usually understood to be the presentation of Athena's peplos, perhaps by the arrhephoroi.

Three or more females, dressed in chiton and peplos, are approaching an altar to the right.

She does not wear the peplos, but the old chit on and himation, treated however entirely in the new spirit.

The arrhephoroi were charged with weaving the peplos (garments) for Athena.

Women contributed every fourth year in the making of a new peplos or robe for the statue of Athena.

Aphrie, noticing all this, reached over and gently tugged Alex's loose peplos until some leg was showing.

Wearing a plain peplos robe, with her hair down, summoned no doubt from bedtime lullabies just moments previous.

The peplos played a role in the Athenian festival of the Great Panathenaea.

They wore the peplos and chiton, and the himation.

"It's called a peplos," she replied, without taking her eyes from Darius, who shot her a lascivious wink.

Her peplos robe was split up the side in the Spartan style, revealing her bare leg to the thigh.

Death - the son of Night in Greek mythology - wears a black peplos and terrifying black wings.