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It would seem that the robe and aegis of the images of Athena were copied by the Greeks from the Libyan women; for except that Libyan women dress in leather, and that the tassels of their goatskin cloaks are not snakes but thongs of hide, in everything else their equipment is the same.
It would seem that the robe and aegis of the images of Athena were copied by the Greeks from the Libyan women; for except that Libyan women dress in leather, and that the tassels of their goatskin cloaks are not snakes but thongs of hide, in everything else their equipment is the same.
[2] And in fact, the very name betrays that the attire of the statues of
Pallas has come from
Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya; for
Libyan women wear the hairless tasselled “aegea” over their dress, colored with madder, and the
Greeks have changed the name of these aegeae into their “aegides.”
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[3] Furthermore, in my opinion the ceremonial chant
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first originated in
Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya: for the women of that country chant very tunefully. And it is from the
Libyans that the
Greeks have learned to drive four-horse chariots.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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