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 256 ON THE REPRESENTATION OF with which she poured forth the triple libations round the dead body of her brother^, is most probable in itself, and is confirmed by a ludicrous parody of the latter scene, in which an old and bald-headed man, dressed up as Antigone, and bearing an exagger- ated hydria, pulls off his female mask at the moment when Creon is about to sentence the supposed culprit to death 2. (See fig. 17.) With regard to the colours of the tragic dress, the three figures in the Cyrenaic painting are mainly attired in blue and yellow. The protagonist, who represents Hercules, has his garments elabo- rately ornamented, the Mercury has his blue robe adorned with rings of gold and sprigs of olive, and the third figure, besides the admixture of blue and yellow in his dress, has some pink figures embroidered on it. They have all girdles in which pink is the prevailing colour. Both the female characters in the scene with the child ev (T7rapydvot(have garments of a bluish greens. There is more variety in the colours on the Pio-Clementine Mosaic, but most of them have transversal bars of purple or gold (called pd^BoL iTapv(f>ai^) on the sleeves and bodies of their upper garments. This band sometimes appears also as the TreJ"/?^ or lower border of the chiton. In one of the groups, where a tyrant, with threatening mien, is addressing a prisoner, who stands before him with droop- ing head and his hands bound behind his back, the former has a bright red dress without any stripes, bound round his waist with a golden girdle'^. The attire of mourning, when the character was represented as suffering under some special calamity, was for a woman a black gown with a pale green or quince-yellow upper robe', and for a man, if he was an exile, soiled white robes, or 1 Introduction to the Antigone, p. xxxii. 2 Gerhard, Ant. Bildwerhe, Taf. lxxiii. ; Panofka, Annali dell' Inst. Arch. Vol. XIX. pp. 216 sqq, ; Welcker, Gerhard's Arch. Ztg. N. F. 1848, pp. 333 sqq. ; Wieseler, Theatergeh. p. 55, PI. ix. No. 7. 3 Wieseler, Theatergeb. p. 52: ''Beide Personen haben einen blaugriinlielien Chiton." ^ Pollux, VII. §53: al ixevTOL eV rots xnlhai irop<pvpaL pd^boi irapv<pal KoXovvrai. Hesych. Trapvcpif]' ij ev ti^ xtrcDw Trop<pvpa. ^ Pollux, VII. § 62: dia de to e^wraTW tov xircDfos eKaripooOev, — at 5^ irapa ras was irapvfpal KoXovuraL ir^^ai Kai ire^ldes. ^ Like the philosopher Lysias, who being elected crowned priest of Hercules, became e^ l/xarlov rvpawos, i. e. as soon as he laid aside his ordinary upper garment and assumed the tragic chlamys ; for he is described as wopcpvpodv p-kv p.€cr6euKov Xi-rCiva ivdedvKui, xXa/ii;5a 5e ecpeaTplha irepi^e^Xriu^uos TroXvreXT) (Athenseus, V. p. 215 B, C). ^ Pollux, IV. § 118: r^s iv (Xv/x(pop^ 6 p.kv avprbs /xeXas, to 5e eiri^r]p.a yXavKou rj firjXii'Ov.