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The truth of the matter, however, is that this form of dress is not in its origin Ionian, but Carian, for in ancient times all women in Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeGreece wore the costume now known as Dorian.
The truth of the matter, however, is that this form of dress is not in its origin Ionian, but Carian, for in ancient times all women in Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeGreece wore the costume now known as Dorian.
[2] As for the
Argives and
Aeginetans, this was the reason of their passing a law in both their countries that brooch-pins should be made half as long as they used to be and that brooches should be the principal things offered by women in the shrines of these two goddesses. Furthermore, nothing else Attic should be brought to the temple, not even pottery, and from that time on only drinking vessels made in the country should be used.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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