Ornamenting Empire · Dialexeis/ Dissoi logoi, On Seemly and Unseemly, 2.24 (Fragment 2 line 58)

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, 2.24 (Fragment 2 line 58)

Language

Greek See all items with this value

Quotation

αἰ γὰρ τὰν γυναῖκα καλόν ἐστι κοσμεῖσθαι, τὰν γυναῖκα αἰσχρὸν κοσμεῖσθαι, αἴπερ τωὐτὸν αἰσχρὸν καὶ καλόν· καὶ τἆλλα κατὰ τωὐτόν.

Part of Speech

Verb (middle) See all items with this value

Type of Thing Ornamented

Person See all items with this value

Object/ Person Ornamented

Women

Type of Medium Ornamenting

Visual Work: Clothing See all items with this value

Visual Work: Jewellery See all items with this value

Visual Work: Cosmetics See all items with this value

Medium/a Ornamenting

Beautiful clothing, jewellery, makeup

Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting

Women themselves

Item Identifier

A02368

Determination

Derived directly from text