What the peploi conceal. Female garments in Euripides’ Hecuba
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https://doi.org/10.14409/argos.2024.51.e0064Keywords:
peploi, Trojan women, female garments, Hecuba, EuripidesAbstract
The word πέπλος (“peplos”), which typically names the tunic worn by women, is
registered a total of eleven times in Euripides’ Hecuba. Taking into account the
bipartite structure of this tragedy and the significance of clothing in the Ancient
Greek world, this article intends to analyze the occurrences of this term in its
contexts, with the hypothesis that the peploi conceal but at the same time reveal
the nature of the female characters: Polyxena, the chorus of captive Trojan women
and Hecuba, as well as they allow the transformation of the last two in each part of
the play.
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