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Dutch model brosekin "small
leather boot". A high-heeled
buskin (Gr****
kothornos (Gr****: κόθορνος) or
Latin cothurnus) was worn by
Athenian tragic actors...
- family)
Melpomene Tragedy Tragic mask,
Sword (or any kind of blade), Club,
Kothornos (boots)
Thalia Comedy Comic mask, Ivy wreath, Shepherd's
crook Urania...
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actors and philosophers. The
tragedians wore the
cothurnus (κόθορνος,
kóthornos), sandal-like
boots that rose
above the
midcalf and
typically incorporated...
- the
genus name
Cothurnia derives from the
ancient gr**** word κόθορνος (
kóthornos), and from the
Latin word cothurnus,
meaning "buskin, or high boot". Cothurnia...