The clothed body in the ancient world /
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Language: English
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Oxford : Oakville, CT :
Oxbow ; David Brown Book Co. [distributor],
2010.
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Call Number: GT530 .C56 2010
Table of Contents:
- "I wear this therefore I am" : the clothed body in the ancient world / Mary Harlow, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Liza Cleland. pt. 1. The clothed body in Egypt and the Aegean. The decorated body in ancient Egypt : hairstyles, cosmetics and tattoos / Joann Fletcher. The fashioning of Delilah : costume design, historicism and fantasy in Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah, 1949 / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones. Reconstructing Aegean Bronze Age fashions / Ariane Marcar. Trailing tunics and sheepskin coats : dress and status in early Greece / Hans von Wees. pt. 2. The clothed body in classical Greece. Constru(ct)ing gender in the feminine Greek peplos / Mirielle Lee. New clothes, a new you : clothing and character in Aristophanes / James Robson. Beauty in rags : on rhakos in Aristophanic theatre / Silvia Milanezi. The semiosis of description : some reflections on fabric and colour in the Brauron inventories / Liza Cleland. Viewing and obscuring the female breast : glimpses of the ancient bra / Emma J. Stafford. pt. 3. The clothed body in Rome and late antiquity. The toga praetexta of Roman children and praetextate garments / Judith Sebesta. What made the Roman toga virilis? / Glenys Davies. Men are Mars, women are Venus : divine costumes in imperial Rome / Shelley Hales. Dress in the Historia Augusta : the role of dress in historical narrative / Mary Harlow. Get your kit on: some issues in the depiction of clothing in Byzantium / Liz James and Shaun Tougher. Tunics from Kasr al-Yahud / Orit Shamir