Clst/Rel 210
Illinois Wesleyan University
Greek Goddess: Hera wears a long, transparent Ionic style chiton with elbow sleeves and a dot pattern at the bottom; a himation is draped over her right arm and shoulder, leaving her left arm exposed. Demeter wears a peplos (Doric tunic or dress) with a black border, a radiate crown (stephane), and a veil which covers the back of her head.
Greek Hero: Oedipus wears a short chiton and a mantle; his petasus (hat) hangs at his back from a red cord. Herakles wears a lion skin over short chiton and a scabbard, while Andromake, queen of the Amazons, wears a short-sleeved chiton with a belt, the chiton is decorated with registers of animals and mythical creatures: a sphinx, three sirens and four felines facing alternately left and right. She is armed with an Attic helmet, a shield and a spear, and has a sword at her side. Penelope (or Helen) might wear an elaborate chiton, with a himation drawn up over her head (woman on L); a younger girl might wear a full pleated chiton and a wreath in her long hair (girl on R). A Trojan king Priam here wears a chiton of thick wool, bordered, and fringed at the ankles; over it, a himation. He carries a sceptor. The Greek warrior Neoptolemos wears a corslet with metal enhancements, and a helmet of Attic type. The caul of the helmet has a lozenge pattern, the cheek-piece is black, the nasal plain, the frontlet moulded into the likeness of curls, the nape-piece ornamented (as in the other Attic helmets on this vase) with a black pellet. The lozenge-pattern indicates a cloth covering, glued to the metal, against the heat of the sun.
Maenads wear ivy wreathes in their hair and carry a thyrsus. They are dressed in long chitons, and himatia of 'Ionic' mode. The other maenads wear the chiton only; in the woman at the altar the girdle is concealed by the kolpos (gathering of fabric that falls over the belt); in the other it is exposed. The women have bracelets.