Diphros
Encyclopedia
Diphros was an Ancient Greek
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece is a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity. Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era. Included in Ancient Greece is the...

 stool without back and with four turned legs.It was easily transportable and so in common use.Gods are shown sitting on diphroi on the Parthenon
Parthenon
The Parthenon is a temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, dedicated to the Greek goddess Athena, whom the people of Athens considered their virgin patron. Its construction began in 447 BC when the Athenian Empire was at the height of its power. It was completed in 438 BC, although...

 frieze; women used them in their
home,Oikos
Oikos
An oikos is the ancient Greek equivalent of a household, house, or family....

.The foldable diphros was called δίφρος ὀκλαδίας diphros okladias.Diphros was also called the saddle of
chariot
Chariot
The chariot is a type of horse carriage used in both peace and war as the chief vehicle of many ancient peoples. Ox carts, proto-chariots, were built by the Proto-Indo-Europeans and also built in Mesopotamia as early as 3000 BC. The original horse chariot was a fast, light, open, two wheeled...

-board, on which two could stand, the driver ἡνίοχος heniochos and the combatant παραιβάτης paraibatês.
The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK