The hair : its growth, care, diseases, and treatment / by C. Henri Leonard.

  • Leonard, C. Henri (Charles Henri), 1850-1925
Date:
1880
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Credit: The hair : its growth, care, diseases, and treatment / by C. Henri Leonard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and so marked is this that one can, by the dressing of the hair alone, tell which one of the gods is intended to be portrayed. In the matter of the coloi\of the hair, Apollo received the golden-colored locks; Mars had red hair and beard; Venus, yel- low, golden tresses; Minerva, flaxen braids concealed beneath her helmet. As a rule, in their poems, their warriors were men of reddish hair, their women with the golden tresses of Venus. (3) $6/3t], the state of the hair as seen in one under the influ- ence of fear. (4) Ilond;, the hair when combed, or dressed. (5) Qpig, the general term for hair, and from the plural of which, rpixs?, the Romans derived their general term tricce. (6) Koporj, meaning simply the hair on the top of the head, and from which the term jwpv/tfio? (corymbus, just described) was derived. When men wore the hair in this style, as seen in the picture of Apollo, Figure 48, it was called xpoo/3vXo?. This last form was used also to denote a net worn upon the hair as that seen in Figure 52, which is from a painting discovered on the walls of Pompeii. The woman is shown as dressed in the far-famed Coan robe, an arti- cle made from almost transparent material. The Grecian ladies were in the habit of wear- ing these nets at night, as well as in the day time, so as to prevent the snarling and tan- gling of their locks. These nets are of very ancient date as Homer makes mention of them in his Iliad, xxii, 469; they were then in common use. (7) MaXAo?, which literally means wool, refers to the short curly hair that is seen on the human species. This variety of hair is seen upon the head of Hercules, Figure 53, whose bust is in the British Museum.