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This essay was written to accompany a collection of Greek artifacts at the CU Art Museum. The peplos, also known as the Doric chiton (4), is the earliest known item of Archaic Greek women's clothing.
The Greek world wasn’t one unified country ... In Ancient Greece, both men and women typically wore tunics—like the peplos or chiton—paired with a cloak called a himation.
While it sounds like a tour update for the musician Meat Loaf, this research concerns a large mollusk called a chiton (not a “bat out of hell”). The mollusk, also known as Cryptochiton ...
This vase is one of a collection of Greek artifacts held by the CU Art Museum ... She holds an oblong or rounded votive offering in her right hand and wears a long dress, called a chiton, covered by a ...
You'd probably walk past a chiton without even seeing it. These creatures often look like nothing more than another speck of seaweed on the crusty intertidal rocks. But it sees you. At least ...
While it sounds like a tour update for the musician Meat Loaf, this research concerns a large mollusk called a chiton (not a "bat out of hell"). The mollusk, also known as Cryptochiton stelleri ...
Diagrams (top) and electron microscope images (bottom) of chiton shells. From left to right: Aesthetes (green) are fount on all chitons, while shell eyes (blue) and eyespots (red) only evolved in ...