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18 THE ANCIENT GRHEK COSTUME.

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DIINO DDL PILOT LP 3 cut, who went about toe entertainmenis to amuse Sthe guests. In the costume of this figure, as in $ most of those we have given, the gracefulness of {the drapery is nol the only beauty; for the em- $ broideries, which surround the hem of the gar- $ ments, ore unrivaled in their patterns. Ix all ithe arts of design, indead, the old Greeke were i pre-eminent. The study of the beautiful was never carried so high as in the age of Phidias. } Subsequent times, at best, Lave oaly imitated, what they could not excel,

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ecntortions, their awkward leaps, are but ind@if- ferent rivals of their more graceful sisters of ancient Greece. The mourning widow, bearing the funeral urn, seen in the following engraving, is also a very different-looking object from the ; fashionably-dressed relict of the middle of this $ nineteenth century: and doea not suffer, we } think, by the comparison.

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The lyre wag alse a favorite musica] inetre- ment at Athens. It was played with a plectrum, ag seen in our next engraving. In their head- dresses, the ancient Greeks, while ndbering to Sone general model, indulged in an almost infinite 3 variety of detail. We give various illustrations

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our article, the reat on the next page. In them- § selves, these are less graceful than when taken ag part of an antire costume, as may be observed g by looking at the figare (hat follows, or at that Son the last page. Graceful as the antique costume was, it would 3 hardly do to revive it now. The attempt wag male during the French Revelution. Madame Tallien, Josephine Besuharnajs, Pauline Boun- S parte, and others of the beauties of that day,

We have our opera-singers now. In Athens, ;nppeared at Parisian entertainments in dressca when the Parthenon was boing built, the Greeks $ copied from ancient statues, to the applause of bad flute-players, like the girl in the ensuing ; their admirers. But that was practically a Dagon

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