THE EARLY AGE OF GREECE VOL.I by W.Ridgeway 1901

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THE BROOCH. 569
Though Penelope did not use the hook and eye system for
her peplos, yet fasteners of that description were known to
Homer, but they are called enetai and wot jieronai, for with such
Hera fastened her peplos down her bosom {Kara arridof^).
Studniczka'-^ (followed by Helbig) identified these with a form
of fibulae worn by some of the personages on the Francois
vase. But Eustathius^ explicitly explains enetai as a kind of
perone w'hich were inserted in holes opposite, as earrings are in
the lobes of the ear.
It is
noteworthy that while the sharp-pointed peronai are a
characteristic of Achean women, Hera, who, as we have seen,
was a Pelasgian goddess, secures her dress with quite a different
kind of fastener.
From no fibulae having been discovered in the acropolitS
graves of Mycenae, it has been supposed that the women of the
Mycenean age tied on their dresses, but, as Hera's costume
would be that of her Pelasgian worshippers, the latter may
have used such enetai as those ascribed to Hera.
When we remember that the Hallstatt folk often wore
more than a dozen fibulae, we need not be surprised that a
peplos of special beauty such as that given to Penelope should
be accompanied with twelve such fasteners.
The perone with which Odysseus fastened his chhtina was
evidently of unusual chai'acter, for the poet would otherwise
not 'have described its structrnv. It bore on it a dog grasping
a fawn and it was furnished with 'twin jjipes
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Helbig' identifies it with certain clasps (ornamented with
sphinxes), which are f'ouinl in Italy. These clasps are furnislii'd
with two straight ])ins,
which run into two straight pipes
attached t( the other side of tlie clas]). whilst the locking
is
effected by two hooks on the out,' side which catch into eyes on
the other.
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