klismos
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.1|Klismos chair, on the stele of Xanthippos, Athens, ca. 430–20 BCE A klismos (Greek: κλισμός) or klismos chair is a type of ancient Greek chair, with curved backrest and tapering, outcurved legs.
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thumb|upright=1.1|Klismos chair, on the stele of Xanthippos, Athens, ca. 430–20 BCE A klismos (Greek: κλισμός) or klismos chair is a type of ancient Greek chair, with curved backrest and tapering, outcurved legs.
==Ancient Greece== Klismoi are familiar from depictions of ancient furniture on painted pottery and in bas-reliefs from the mid-fifth century BCE onwards. In epic, klismos signifies an armchair, but no specific description is given of its form; in Iliad xxiv, after Priam's appeal, Achilles rises from his thronos, raises the elder man to his feet, goes out to prepare Hector's body for decent funeral and returns, to take his place on his klismos.