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Peplos vs Chiton - What's the difference?

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Chiton is a coordinate term of peplos.



As nouns the difference between peplos and chiton

is that peplos is an Ancient Greek garment, worn by women, formed of a tubular piece of cloth, which is folded back upon itself halfway down, until the top of the tube is worn around the waist, and the bottom covers the legs down to the ankles; the open top is then worn over the shoulders, and draped, in folds, down to the waist while chiton is a loose, woolen tunic, worn by both men and women in Ancient Greece.

peplos

English

Noun

(peploi)
  • An Ancient Greek garment, worn by women, formed of a tubular piece of cloth, which is folded back upon itself halfway down, until the top of the tube is worn around the waist, and the bottom covers the legs down to the ankles; the open top is then worn over the shoulders, and draped, in folds, down to the waist.
  • * 1990 : David Martin Halperin, John J. Winkler, Froma I. Zeitlin, eds, Before Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World
    • An obvious question arises: what on earth can Herakles do with a peplos'''? Throughout Greek tradition, the '''peplos ("piece of cloth, veil, dress") is a woman's garment, and sometimes a barbarian's garment—no contradiction, as far as a Greek is concerned.
  • * 1993 : Charles Segal, Euripides and the Poetics of Sorrow
    • The garments (peploi ) that serve the Trojan women as a pretext to laying hands on their victims are also the means of concealing the daggers that will kill
  • * '2004, Mary Stieber, ''The Poetics of Appearance in the Attic Korai
    • I leave aside the vexed questions about whether one or two peploi were woven and presented to Athena during the Greater (every four years) and Lesser (every year) Panathenaic festivals

    See also

    * peplum * palla * exomis * himation * chlamys * chiton

    Anagrams

    *

    chiton

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A loose, woolen tunic, worn by both men and women in Ancient Greece.
  • * 1992 , Donna Tartt, The Secret History ,
    • On the night of our first attempt, we simply overdrank and passed out in our chitons in the woods near Francis’s house.
  • * 1998 , Colette Susan Czapski, NM238: A Hellenistic Statue and Its Archaistic Support'', Kim J. Hartswick, Mary Carol Sturgeon (editors), ''Stephanos: Studies in Honor of Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway , page 53,
    • She wears a diaphanous himation that covers her torso, over a floor-length chiton of heavier fabric.
  • * 2002 , Nikolaos Kaltsas (editor), Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens , page 156,
    • She wears a chiton and himation, using both hands to hold the edge of the latter, in which she has gathered apples.
    See also
    *
    Coordinate terms
    (other Ancient Greek costume) * chlamys * exomis * himation * palla * peplum, peplos * toga

    References

    * American Heritage Dictionary (fourth edition, 2000) entry on the chiton

    Etymology 2

    From . See .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of various rock-clinging marine molluscs of the class Polyplacophora, including the genus Chiton .
  • * 1969 , Sam Hinton, Seashore Life of Southern California , page 72,
    • In the giant chiton , Cryptochiton , this girdle has expanded so as to completely cover the plates.
  • * 1979 , R. McNeill Alexander, The Invertebrates , page 295,
    • The chiton (Fig. 14.1 a ) is depressed (dorso-ventrally flattened), with a large foot which has a flat sole.
  • * 1996 , Paul Henson, The Natural History of Big Sur , page 70,
    • The bright orange gumboot chiton (Cryptochiton stelleri ) is the largest in the world.
    Synonyms
    * (mollusc) coat-of-mail shell, loricate, polyplacophoran, polyplacophore, sea cradle
    See also
    * ("chiton" on Wikipedia)

    Anagrams

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