JOURNAL #6 – GREEK MORGUE

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/56.11.5-.6/
These armbands are from the Hellenistic Period of Greece. Jewelry at the time was made of gold and these armbands depict a snake with a Triton man and a woman each holding an Eros.
https://www.ancient-greece.org/images/museums/athens-aegean/pages/athens-mus-aegean004.html
In this picture, it depicts two boys boxing and they are both wearing loincloths. This is from the Minoan Period where it was common for men to wear decorative loincloths.
https://www.ancient-greece.org/images/museums/athens-archaic/pages/athens-mus-archaic023.html
This statue from the Archaic Period depicts a woman wearing a chiton which is a large rectangular cloth wrapped around the body and fastened to one side.

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