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[736] Athene dresses entirely in man's attire, and lays aside the long woollen peplos for the linen chiton which fitted closer to the body and was thus more suitable for active exertion. (Reichel p. 107 objects that the ‘Doric’ peplos could have been girt up, and that Athene is constantly represented in art as wearing it with armour. He concludes that she must here be conceived as wearing a prae-Dorian dress such as the flounced Mykenaean skirt. But this inference does not seem justifiable.) Zen. rejected 734-6 here as borrowed from 8.385-7; Ar. maintained the converse.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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