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Peplos

A peplos 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, with a type of brooch later called a fibula. In Latin and in a Roman context, the garment could be called a palla.

Rituals
On the last day of the month Pyanepsion, the priestess of Athena Polias and the Arrephoroi, a group of girls chosen to help in the making of the sacred peplos, set up the loom on which the enormous peplos was to be woven by the Ergastinai, another group of girls chosen to spend about nine months making the sacred peplos. They had to weave a theme of Athena's defeat of Enkelados and the Olympian's defeat of the Giants. The peplos of the statue was changed each year during the Plynteria. The peplos played a role in the Athenian festival of the Great Panathenaea. Nine months before the festival, at the arts and crafts festival titled Chalkeia, a special peplos would begin to be woven by young women. During the Panathenaea, the peplos was taken up to the Acropolis of Athens to be presented to the wooden statue of Athena Polias in the Erechtheion, opposite the Parthenon. The main scene of the Parthenon frieze is believed, although not without disagreement, to represent this peplos scene during the Panathenaea. The peplos had images of the mythic battle between gods and giants woven into its material and usually consisted of purple and saffron yellow cloth. File:Peplos scene BM EV.JPG|The Panathenaea peplos, from the Parthenon frieze File:Istanbul - Museo archeologico - Mostra sul colore nell'antichità 02 - Foto G. Dall'Orto 28-5-2006sm.jpg|The Peplos Kore, colour reconstruction of statue of File:Athena Parthenos Louvre Ma91.jpg|Athena wearing a luxurious peplos, one that uses a lot of fabric, 5th century BC File:Peplofora, Neo-Attic, 50 BC to 50 AD, marble - Galleria Borghese - Rome, Italy - DSC04821.jpg|A wide peplos with the width gathered at the side to be used as sleeves File:Bronze Nike Louvre Br1679.jpg|Nike wearing a peplos on top of a chiton, second quarter of 5th century BC File:Caryatid Erechtheion BM Sc407.jpg|Caryatid from the Erechtheion wearing a peplos. Note the blousing, or kolpos, over the zone File:Danzatrice.JPG|Fastening a peplos File:Peplófora.JPG|Fastened File:Naples Archaeology Museum (5914748008).jpg|Pulling it over the head. Note remnants of red border Image:Terrkottastatue einer Griechin im Mantel 2 Jhdt v Chr.jpg|Woman wearing the fold of her peplos over her head, 2nd century BC File:Statuette of a female figure (5th cent. B.C.) in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens on 28 September 2018.jpg|Wearing a peplos over a chiton, a later style ==See also==
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