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204 W. KENDRICK PRITCHETT
Leipzig, 1928, and Entwicklungsgeschichte des griechischen Trcacht, Berlin, 1934; and
G. M. A. Richter, Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks, rev. ed., New Haven, 1950,
pp. 87-108. For ancient textiles in general, see the references given below, p. 249,
note 250. On the whole, however, the author has found the article of Leroux in
Daremberg-Saglio, Dictionnaire, s.v. Pallium, the most useful. This article is well
documented in the references to ancient sources. For the unusual difficulty in the
matter of defining articles of costume, reference should be made to the well-chosen
introductory remarks of Buck, Dictionary, p. 416.
We may also present here for convenience a few references to prices in the
literature where the garment is not specifically designated.1 We learn from Eupolis
(frag. 252) that in the twenties of the fifth century, a woollen garment was valued
at 20 drachmas. In the Ecclesiazcusae of Aristophanes (ca. 392 B.C.), a pauper who
appeared at the Pnyx unclad is said to have announced himself in need of 16 drachmas
for an outer garment.2 Extravagant women paid as much as 1000 drachmas for
garments.!
For literature concerning footwear, reference may be made to Hug in R.E., s.v.
Schuh. Of the works there cited, use has particularly been made of K. Erbacher's
Wiirzburg dissertation (1914), Griechisches Schuhwerk.
As with clothing so wlith footwear, there are ancient references to prices for the
general category (hypodemata). These include a passage in the Plutus of Aristophanes
(388 B.C.),' in which a young man asks an old lady for eight drachmas to
purchase a pair of shoes. In the year 327 B.C. the accounts of the epistatai of Eleusis
show a payment for shoes for 17 slaves at the rate of 6 drachmas per pair.' Two
prytanies later for the repair of the same number of shoes a payment of 4 drachmas
per zeugos was made.6 In Lucian,7 a pair of woman's shoes, of Sikyonian manufacture,
cost two drachmas.
1 For the price of a chiton of wool at Delos, see G. Glotz, Journal des Savan'ts, XI, 1913, p. 24
2
Line 413.
3 Adesp., 516 (Kock, C.A.F., III, p. 503).
4 Line 983.
5 I.G., 112, 1672, line 105. Cato (De agric., 59) assumes that a slave should have a pair of shoes
every other year.
6 Line 190; cf. line 230. The passage in question reads as follows: v{ronL/a'Tv 8?q/AOLOrLot KaTT7vaoJ,
Vo g &yov3 'A?roXAoOavyt TvpE18,EL FFFF, KE0aJAac rAPFIH. P. Guiraud (La Main-d'oeuvre industrielie
dcans l1ancienne Grece, Paris, 1900, p. 190) states that the price of repair was 2 drachmas per pair.
This would apparently require that we interpret zeugos as totalling four shoes. But it is clear, for
example, from the phrase tE6yo' eftuj8a8wv in Aristophanes, Equites, line 872, that zeugos here means
only one pair of slippers. The Sausage-seller gives the slippers to Demos to wear. It should be
noted that the word Ka'TTvTvS (Attic), or Ka'aaVat3 known only from I.G., 112, 1672, lines 190 anid
230, does not appear in Liddell-Scott-Jones. See, however, Buck and Petersen, Reverse Index,
p. 595.
7 D. Meretr., 14, 2.