Cloak
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A cloak is a type of loose garment worn over clothing, mostly but not always, as outerwear for outdoor wear, which serves the same purpose as an overcoat and protects the wearer from the weather. It m
A young man in an evening cloak, 1823
Cloak, 1580–1600 Victoria and Albert Museum, No. 793-1901
Couple hiding under the same cloak, fragment of an Ancient Greek red-figure cup, c. 525–500 BC, found in Athens. Louvre Museum, Paris.
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Himation
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A himation was a type of clothing, a mantle or wrap worn by ancient Greek men and women from the Archaic period through the Hellenistic period. It was usually worn over a chiton or peplos, but was mad
Cloak
…garment's bell-like shape. Thus the word is related to the word clock. Ancient Greeks and Romans were known to wear cloaks. Greek men and women wore the himation, from the Archaic through the Hellenistic periods (c. 750–30 BC). Romans would later wear the Greek-styled cloak, the pallium. The pallium was quadrangular…
Statues at the "House of Cleopatra" in Delos, Greece. Woman and man wearing himatia
This image is the Bronze Statue of a Roman Aristocratic Boy, wearing himation, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Sitting Achilles wrapped in a himation, from c. 500 BC
The Terracotta Amphora from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, showing a judge in himation