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bronze. The Iliad, with the exception of Δ, 123, and Σ, 34, mentions only bronze swords, lances, and arrows.[1] The representations on the Mycenaean ornaments exhibit a striking correspondence with the earliest portions of the Homeric poems.
41. Dress.[2]It is probable that in Homeric times
Fig. 43.Warrior Vase from Mycenae
the undergarment of the men (zoma) corresponded to that worn by the hunters in fig. 34. The long chiton of white linen can be recognized in a Mycenaean vase of the so-called third style.[3] Over this was thrown the woolen chlaina, generally fastened with a buckle.
The principal garment of the women was the long robe (πέπλος or ὲανός) fastened on the shoulder by a
- ↑ Professor Ridgeway (Early Age of Greece, Vol. I, pp. 294 ff.) goes so far as to maintain that the Homeric age was an iron age, and that the more frequent use of the word bronze (χαλκός) than the word iron (σιδηρος) is merely a reminiscence of an earlier use of that metal. Cf. Jevons, Iron in Homer, Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1803.
- ↑ Heinrieh, Troja bei Homer und in der Wirklichkeit, p. 27. Cf. Tsountas and Manatt, The Mycenaean Age, pp. 159–190; Ridgeway, Early Age in Greece, Vol. I, pp. 297–299.
- ↑ Cf. Furtwängler und Löschcke, op. cit. Plate XLI.
