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 252 ON THE REPRESENTATION OF robe like the other figures. The accompanying groups show the tragic, comic, and satjric masks in contrast with one another. Fiof. J 2. Fig 13. Fig. 14. {b) It has been already remarked that the di-ess of the tragic actors was derived from the gay festal costume of the worshippers of Bacchus. The performers, says Muller^, wore " long striped gar- ments reaching to the ground (^trwi/e? vroST^pet?, aroXal), over which were thrown upper robes {ifidria, ^XayLtuSe?) of purple or some other brilliant colour, with all sorts of gay trimmings and gold orna- ments, the ordinary dress of Bacchic festal processions and choral dances. Nor was the Hercules of the stage represented as the sturdy athletic hero whose huge limbs were only concealed by a lion's hide ; he appeared in the rich and gaudy dress we have described, ^ Muller, Hist. Lit. Gr. i. p. 296. For the details and minutiae of the Greek theatrical costume, see also Miiller's Eumeniden, § 32 ; Schon, De Personarmn in Enripidis Bacchabus Halitu scenico Commentatio, Lips. 1831 ; and Millin's DescHp- iion of the Pio- Clementine Mosaic. On the different styles of dress adopted by the different characters, see Jul, Pollux, IV. t8; and for examples, compare the Introduc- tion to the Antigone, pp. xxxii sq<i.