The Clothed Body In The Ancient World

by CLELAND, LIZA; Harlow, Mary; Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd

• ISBN13: 9781842171653
• ISBN10: 1842171658
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-06-30
• Publisher: Oxbow Books Ltd

Summary

Studies of the nude body have been around for many years, but rarely has scholarship looked at the clothed body. Yet the way we clothe ourselves says a great deal about the society we live in and our place within it. The papers in this volume provide fascinating snapshots of the clothed body in the ancient world. Once collected together, these snapshots reveal common themes in scholarship and allow a comparison of methodologies across disciplines and periods. Clothing the body is a complex and significant act, and this volume goes some way to unravelling the intricacies inherent in this sociocultural phenomenon.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	x
INTRODUCTION
'I Wear this Therefore I Am': The Clothed Body in the Ancient World	xi
PART I. THE CLOTHED BODY IN EGYPT AND THE AEGEAN
1. The Decorated Body in Ancient Egypt: Hairstyles, cosmetics and tattoos
Joann Fletcher	3	(11)
2. The Fashioning of Delilah. Costume Design, Historicism and Fantasy in Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah (1949)
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones	14	(16)
3. Reconstructing Aegean Bronze Age Fashions
Ariane Marcar	30	(14)
4. Trailing Tunics and Sheepskin Coats: Dress and status in early Greece
Hans van Wees	44	(11)
PART II. THE CLOTHED BODY IN CLASSICAL GREECE
5. Constru(ct)ing Gender in the Feminine Greek Peplos
Mireille Lee	55	(10)
6. New Clothes, a New You: Clothing and character in Aristophanes
James Robson	65	(10)
7. Beauty in Rags. On rhakos in Aristophanic theatre
Silvia Milanezi	75	(12)
8. The Semiosis of Description: Some reflections on fabric and colour in the Brauron Inventories
Liza Cleland	87	(9)
9. Viewing and Obscuring the Female Breast: Glimpses of the ancient bra
Emma J. Stafford	96	(17)
PART III. THE CLOTHED BODY IN ROME AND LATE ANTIQUITY
10. The toga praetexta of Roman Children and Praetextate Garments
Judith Sebesta	113	(8)
11. What Made the Roman Toga virilis?
Glenys Davies	121	(10)
12. Men are Mars, Women are Venus: Divine costumes in Imperial Rome
Shelley Hales	131	(12)
13. Dress in the Historia Augusta: The role of dress in historical narrative
Mary Harlow	143	(11)
14. Get Your Kit On! Some issues in the depiction of clothing in Byzantium
Liz James and Shaun Tougher	154	(8)
15. Tunics from Kasr al-Yahud
Orit Shamir	162	(7)
Bibliography	169