Examples of peplos in the following topics:
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Sculpture in the Greek Archaic Period
- The Peplos KoreĀ (c. 530 BCE) depicts a young woman wearing a peplos, a heavy wool garment that drapes over the whole body, obscuring most of it.
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The Parthenon
- The Panathenaic procession occurred yearly through the city, leading from the Dipylon Gate to the Acropolis and culminated in a ritual changing of the peplos worn by the ancient olive-wood statue of Athena.
- The central image depicts Athenian maidens with textiles, replacing the old peplos with a new one.
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The Acropolis
- The Panathenaic procession occurred yearly through the city, leading from the Dipylon Gate to the Acropolis and culminated in a ritual changing of the peplos worn by the ancient olive-wood statue of Athena.
- The central image depicts Athenian maidens with textiles, replacing the old peplos with a new one.
- Because of its mythic significance and its religious relics, the Erechtheion was the ending site of the Panathenaic festival, when the peplos on the olive-wood statue of Athena was annually replaced with new clothing with due pomp and ritual.
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The Propylaea and the Erechtheion
- Because of its mythic significance and its religious relics, the Erechtheion was the ending site of the Panathenaic festival, when the peplos on the olive-wood statue of Athena was annually replaced with new clothing with due pomp and ritual.