The clothed body in the ancient world / edited by Liza Cleland, Mary Harlow and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones.
Contributor(s): Cleland, Liza
| Harlow, Mary | Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd
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TextPublisher: Oxford : Oxbow, [2005]Distributor: Oakville, CT : David Brown Book Co. [distributor]Copyright date: ©2005Description: xvi, 192 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1842171658 (pbk.); 9781842171653 (pbk.)Subject(s): Clothing and dress -- History | Clothing and dress -- Social aspects | Human body -- Social aspects -- History | Civilization, Classical | Civilization, AncientDDC classification: 391.009 LOC classification: GT511 | .C56 2005Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-192).| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Selections originally presented at a conference entitled "The clothed body in the ancient world".
Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-192).
"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 van 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.