A woman wearing a long chiton with sleeves and a himation stands to right with right hand raised, and holding a flower(?
The standing figures all wear a long chiton, with long sleeves, and a himation which is wrapped closely about the body, passing under the right arm and over the left shoulder.
In that case his right hand may have been drawing forward the end of his himation over his right knee.
The left hand instinctively prevents the himation being displaced by the raising of the right arm.
The ordinary costume of the citizen was the himation or a mantle of smaller size.
For men there was also a tunic similar to that worn by the Greeks; but in place of the himation the Roman toga was worn, a garment of entirely different shape.
In the Harpy monument, where we might have looked for Ionic dress in its purest form, we find the Doric himation worn over the fine linen-sleeved chiton, and on very many of the red-figured vases of the severe style this is the case.
The Doric peplos is worn as an over-dress over the Ionic chiton, even by one of the “Maidens” of the Acropolis, and later on the commonest form of outdoor dress for women was the Ionic chiton with the Doric himation over it.
We know that the himation of the Olympian Zeus by Pheidias was richly decorated, and the fragment from Damophon’s great group at Lycosura will serve as a later example of sculptured drapery highly ornamented with patterns in relief.
The himation worn over the Ionic chiton presents considerable variety of shape and arrangement.
The difference in texture comes out very plainly in those cases where the himation is worn over the shoulders like a shawl, or where it is omitted altogether; for example, in Nos.
Very clear examples of it are to be seen in some of the archaic female statues on the Acropolis at Athens, especially in those cases where the himation is worn like a shawl over both shoulders.
The himation is so worn by Mausolus and Artemisia in their portrait statues from the Mausoleum.
In very many cases we find that the Doric himation is worn, whether over both shoulders or only over one.
As the man went out, Themistocles took a long himation from the locker and wrapped it around the newcomer.
See, a gentleman wrapped in a long himation is going up to the door and standing up his walking stick.
First a man ran toward the Agora, panting,—his himation blew from his shoulders, he never stopped to recover it.
At all times there was a tendency to treat the drapery in masses of colour, and this we see especially in the Tanagra figures, in which the chiton is almost invariably blue, the himation rose-pink.
The adjustment of the himation is a work of great art.
His himation was always an old one, unchanged from summer to winter.
Among this unaristocratic crowd we observe a dignified old gentleman with an immaculate himation and a long polished cane.
When she rises to have her himation draped around her, the directions she gives reveal her whole bent and character.
And in the summer heat the himation (for the less prudish) will become a light shawl floating loose and free over the shoulders, or only a kind of veil drawn so as to now conceal, now reveal, the face.
No guest comes alone, however: every one has his own body servant with him, who will look after his footgear and himation during the dinner, and give a certain help with the serving.
He has taken great pains with the folds of his himation and the trim of his beard this morning.
The earthen slope is entirely devoid of seats; everybody casts himself down sprawling or on his haunches, perhaps with an old himation under him.
The women wore the chiton and the himation and in addition they wore another garment over the chiton, called the crocotos, which sometimes had sleeves and was of a rich purple or saffron color and frequently had a broad border of embroidery.
The himation of Sparta was smaller than that at Athens, scarcely covering the person, and which was called the tribon.
The queen was dressed plainly in Greek fashion; her himation was white, her only ornament a great diamond that was blazing like a star on her breast.
His fears were not allayed by noticing that underneath his himation Pratinas occasionally let the hilt of a short sword peep forth.
Finally, the himation was again thrown over the left shoulder, so that the ends fell over the back.
We mentioned before, that the himation was sometimes pulled over the back of the head like a veil.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "himation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
