# Diphros

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'''Diphros''' ([Greek](/source/Ancient_Greek): Δίφρος) was an [Ancient Greek](/source/ancient_Greece) 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](/source/Parthenon) frieze; women used them in their
home. The foldable diphros was called δίφρος ὀκλαδίας ''diphros okladias''. Diphros was also called the saddle of
[chariot](/source/chariot)-board, on which two could stand, the driver ἡνίοχος ''heniochos'' and the combatant παραιβάτης ''paraibatês''. These objects are only part of the larger body of [ancient furniture](/source/Ancient_Furniture) attested to in texts and images.

==References==
*{{cite book|title=A Handbook of Greek Art |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qtxPAAAAMAAJ&q=Diphros|first=Gisela M. A. |last=Richter|authorlink=Gisela Richter|publisher=[Phaidon Press](/source/Phaidon_Press)|year= 1987}}
*{{cite book|title=Hesperia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y_UrAAAAMAAJ&q=Diphros|publisher=[American School of Classical Studies at Athens](/source/American_School_of_Classical_Studies_at_Athens)|year=1956}}
*{{cite book|title=Diphros (furniture)|url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-164519/diphros|publisher= [Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica)}}
*{{cite web|title=Furniture of Ancient Greece |url=http://www.richeast.org/htwm/Greek/Furniture.html|author=A. Whitham|website=[Rich East High School](/source/Rich_East_High_School)}}
*{{cite book|title=Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art |chapter=THE REINCARNATION OF DAIDALOS|page=258|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z-ogyZATkXMC&dq=Pausanias+diphros&pg=PA258|first=Sarah P. |last=Morris|authorlink=Sarah P. Morris|year=}}
*[https://images.google.com/images?q=Diphros&um=1&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi Diphros] in [Google Images](/source/Google_Images)

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