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Umbrellas and Their History
William Sangster
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aenankazon."
—OElian, V. H., vi. 1.
[Footnote: "They compelled the maidens of the Metceci to act as
umbrella-bearers in the processions."]
Its use seems to have been confined to women. In Pausanias there is a description of a tomb near Pharæ, a Greek city. On the tomb was the figure of a woman—
"themapaina de autae prosestaeke skiadeion pherousa." —Pausanias, lib. vii., cap. 22, Section 6. [Footnote: "And by her stood a female slave, bearing a parasol."]
Aristophanes seems to mention it among the common articles of female use—
"aemin men gar son eti kai nun tantion, o kanon, oi kalathiokoi, to skiadeion." —Aristophanes, Thesmoph., 821. [Footnote: "For now our loom is safe, our weaving-beam, our baskets. . . Read More
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This is not what I was expecting. I was expecting a book about the history of umbrellas - how and where and why they were developed. This does occasionally touch on those issues, but it's mostly a literary history of umbrellas. I don't really care about what people wrote about umbrellas (and I certa
Quite interesting short research work by a polyglot and important patent holder.
This book was exactly as described: a thorough history of the umbrella, including its mention in literature, starting with palm leaves held above royal subjects throughout India, Africa, China, and later, Greece and Rome, for protection from the sun. Chapters include the shift to parasols used prima