Ornamenting Empire · Dialexeis/ Dissoi logoi, On Seemly and Unseemly, 2.15 (Fragment 2 line 31)

Text Category

Literature: prose See all items with this value

Century Range

5th century BCE See all items with this value

Author

Unknown See all items with this value

Reference

Dialexeis/ Dissoi logoi, On Seemly and Unseemly, 2.15 (Fragment 2 line 31)

Language

Greek See all items with this value

Quotation

τοὶ δὲ Πέρσαι κοσμεῖσθαι τε ὥσπερ τὰς γυναῖκας καὶ τὼς ἄνδρας καλὸν νομίζοντι καὶ τᾷ θυγατρὶ καὶ τᾷ ματρὶ καὶ τᾷ ἀδελφᾷ συνίμεν· τοὶ δὲ Ἕλλανες καὶ αἰσχρὰ καὶ παράνομα.

Part of Speech

Verb (passive) See all items with this value

Type of Thing Ornamented

Person See all items with this value

Object/ Person Ornamented

Persian men

Type of Medium Ornamenting

Visual Work: Clothing See all items with this value

Visual Work: Jewellery See all items with this value

Medium/a Ornamenting

Women's dress and ornament

Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting

Men themselves

Notes

In the text it is written that it is inappropriate for men to dress this way

Item Identifier

A02366

Determination

Derived directly from text