Thus Virgil says:—
In perfect view their hair with fillets tied.
Her beauteous breast she beat and rent her flowing hair.
Strabo says, that in Athens it consisted of a wreath of myrtle leaves and roses around the head, forming a corobulus.
The hair over the forehead of Apollo Belvidere is an example of a corobulus. And the hair was twined or spun around a spindle, in the shape of a cone, and one or more of these projected from the crown of the head, with a golden grasshopper for ornament, as seen in Fig. 10.
Four hundred and eighty years B.C., hats were not worn as a rule, and dress was in simple style. It was considered improper for women to be seen on the street, and their appearance there occurred only on exceptional occasions.
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Athens.
On journeys, women wore a light, broad-brimmed petasos, which Figs. 8 and 11 represent, as a protection from the sun. At a late period the head-dress of Athenian ladies, at home and for the street, consisted, in addition to the customary veil, chiefly of different contrivances for holding together their plentiful hair.