Theseus sandals from Burnstein Azalee Fashion
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* leather , wood & metal
* genuine design
* skin-matching HUD with settings for many popular skins
* nail pedicure in 9 colors
* menu driven control of shine, glow, brightness, transparency, nail pedicure and buckle texture
Perms: copy
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Size settings:
All of pieces from Burnstein Azalee Fashion comes with a resizing option.
After you wear sandals, touch the object. After touching a prim it offers you options to resize all prims of the sandals 1, 5 or 10 percent smaller or bigger. Also, by same menu you can change shine, glow, brightness, transparency, nail pedicure and buckle texture.
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Greek sandals were an indicator of different social strata wearers belonged to. It is believed that the first sandals were made by ancient Romans and Egyptians. The word ‘Greek’ was attributed to this type of footwear thanks to versatile designs created by ancient Greek shoemakers who turned shoemaking into a kind of art.
The first sandals were made from papyrus and palm branches; later people started to use stiff leather. Sandals featured wooden soles and leather straps adjusted to them. Straps of Greek sandals hugged feet from toes to ankles but there were knee high models too. Being a shoemaker was a profitable and respected occupation those days as they created tailored models of sandals for each customer. Wealthier people could afford ordering footwear decorated with precious stones and metals and carved patterns on soles. Shoemakers also used softer leather for shoes designed for rich customers whereas less well-off still had to wear stiff leather sandals.
Despite the increasing popularity of the new footwear, most Greeks still went barefoot; even wealthy people put on sandals only outside. Yet, people engaged in heavy work, such as hunters and soldiers, needed to wear Greek sandals to protect feet when working. Their sandals were made of thicker leather, had larger soles and featured knee-high designs. Apart from that, Greeks, who needed more protection, wore boots. These, like sandals, had wooden soles and leather uppers; however, they covered soles, sides and shins leaving toes uncovered. Later, ancient shoemakers offered their customers sandals made of dyed leather and patches of fabrics. Wearers, who wanted to look a bit taller, could go for sandals with slices of cork incorporated into soles.
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Theseus /ˈθiːsiːəs/ (Ancient Greek: Θησεύς) was the mythical founder-king of Athens, son of Aegeus and Poseidon, both of whom Aethra had slept with in one night. Theseus was a founder-hero, like Perseus, Cadmus, or Heracles, all of whom battled and overcame foes that were identified with an archaic religious and social order.
As Heracles was the Dorian hero, Theseus was the Athenian founding hero, considered by them as their own great reformer: his name comes from the same root as θεσμός ("thesmos"), Greek for "institution". He was responsible for the synoikismos ("dwelling together")—the political unification of Attica under Athens, represented emblematically in his journey of labours, subduing highly localized ogres and monstrous beasts.
The great legendary hero of Attica, is one of those mythological personages, whose legends it is by no means easy to disentangle, and represent in their original shape. The later belief of the Athenians, adopted and strengthened by writers of authority, represented him as a very much more historical person than he really was; and, in consequence, the rationalistic mythologists took considerable pains to draw up a narrative of his life in which the supernatural should be kept as much as possible in the back ground, and the character in which the Athenians loved to regard him, as the founder of Attic nationality, be exhibited in as prominent a light as the received traditions allowed. This was avowedly the method upon which Plutarch proceeded.
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