Within Greek mythology Apollo is represented wearing a laurel-wreath, & garland were awarded to victors, each around athletic contest and poetic meets under his care. Dionysus is crowned with the lei of ivy (in his untamed & unsafe aspect), or even by owning a vine, when a artificer of civilizing wine. An oak wreath, wherever it is carved, recalls Zeus, who experienced usurped a ancient oak-grove oracle at Dodona. Garland of roses are a late addition to the imaging of Aphrodite.

Funeral coronal were the Roman custom. It typically pop up carven in sarcophagi.

The chaplet processed of mostly evergreen tree twigs, every now and again by using pinecones and/or the bow processed of red ribbon occurs as most common Christmas decoration.