Women’s Dress in the Ancient Greek World
edited by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Hardback (Out of print)
(December 2001)
ISBN: 9780715631300
Price: $60.00
Out of stock
The clothing and ornament of Greek women signalled much about the status and the morality assigned to them. Yet this revealing aspect of women’s history has been little studied. In this collection of new studies by an international team, ancient visual evidence from vase-painting and sculpture is used extensively alongside Greek literature to reconstruct how women of the Greek world were perceived, and also, in important ways, how they lived.
Introduction 1. Constraints and contradictions: whiteness and femininity in ancient Greece - Bridget M. Thomas 2. The graces and colour weaving - Beate Wagner-Hasel 3. Transvestism or travesty? Dance, dress and gender in Greek vase-painting - Tyler Jo Smith 4. The 'language' of female hunting outfit in ancient Greece - Eva Parisinou 5. The meaning of the veil in ancient Greek culture - Douglas L. Cairns 6. Investing the barbarian? The dress of Amazons in Athenian art - Ruth Veness 7. Levels of concealment: the dress of hetairai and pornai in Greek texts -Andrew Dalby 8. Visions of gleaming textiles and a clay core: textiles, Greek women, and Pandora - Judith Lynn Sebesta 9. Clutching at clothes - Sue Blundell 10. A woman's view? Dress, eroticism, and the ideal female body in Athenian art - Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 11. Controlling women's dress: gynaikonomoi - Daniel Ogden 12. Clothes as sign: the case of the large and small Herculaneum women - Glenys Davies 13. 'Dedicated followers of fashion': John Chrysostom on female dress -Aideen M. Hartney Index
- Edited by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
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The Power of Individual and Community in Ancient Athens and Beyond
Essays in Honour of John K. Davies
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