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Minime has to dress as Hades for a project at school. We have looked at loads of images of him and cannot work out which ones are correct. So can anyone help?

Does he wear a crown? Does he have a beard? Is his fork, two prongs or three?

:-6:-6

Coincidently, my older son played Hades in the high school play Persephone years ago. If I remember correctly, he wore black, cape, etc. He must look regal and handsome, and both attractive and foreboding.:wah: He enjoyed playing the part.

Here are some images of Hades that may help you.

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Thanks AFTR, I think he is going to go for the beard, two prong fork and crown.

My next question ( now you are all going to think I am totally stupid ), I need to research the internet to find out how to tie the robe thingy, can anyone tel me what its called? :o

I quite like this one, it's contemporary Greek (c. 470 BC). That on his head is a laurel wreath rather than a crown. The cornucopia is a bit large but it's a ram's horn filled with the fruits of the earth.

"Hades' weapon was a two-pronged fork, which he used to shatter anything that was in his way or not to his liking, much as Poseidon did with his trident".

So, yesterday he has nude pics on his computer and today he has to dress as Hades?:D



Why doe this strike me as funny?:wah:

YZGI;796075 wrote: So, yesterday he has nude pics on his computer and today he has to dress as Hades?:D



Why doe this strike me as funny?:wah:


:wah: Do you think I need to worry about him

mmmmm Sex and dressing up as a greek god, now there's an idea (it is Friday after all) :sneaky:

Thanks Spot :-6 Do you know what his robe s officially called?

I hope it's warm where he's wearing it.

If you look at http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/R ... lamys.html that's as good a description as I can find of the standard male classical Greek daywear. If it was cold they had the Abolla, a loose woollen cloak, to supplement the scarf. There's articles in that illustrated dictionary on the himation, achiton and chiton which show how each was put on and what they looked like.

None of this is very like the common perception of Greek dress. You'd do better with a suitable web page from a costume hiring shop.

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spot;796208 wrote: I hope it's warm where he's wearing it.

If you look at http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/R ... lamys.html that's as good a description as I can find of the standard male classical Greek daywear. If it was cold they had the Abolla, a loose woollen cloak, to supplement the scarf. There's articles in that illustrated dictionary on the himation, achiton and chiton which show how each was put on and what they looked like.

None of this is very like the common perception of Greek dress. You'd do better with a suitable web page from a costume hiring shop.


Thanks Spot. I have the fabric and I think I have worked it out from the pictures. :-6

okay this is now driving me crazy :-5

If he's ended up looking like that pale blue sketch then I bet it's driven Minime crazy too.

spot;797322 wrote: If he's ended up looking like that pale blue sketch then I bet it's driven Minime crazy too.


He's not going to show his bits :wah:

I really am so bad at this sort of thing :-5

The second line doesn't convince me of the first.

My older sister too all the artistic abilities and left me with nothing :-1

Oh Pheasy, I know what you mean. These school projects look "cool" on paper, but when you go to do them, they are really hard. We just had to do one on Myths, what a PITA!:)

:wah: Well I finally did it. It took years off my life :-5

Build a snowman, dress the snowman in what you've made and put a pic up, we'd like to see.

Yay! I got an A+ ... 'cough' I mean MiniMe got an A+ :wah:



Just joking he did a lot of written work to go with it - well done MiniMe

Worth all the effort then. Pass on our congratulations.

Very good Minime! My boy scored a 85