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Women's Dress in the Ancient Greek World

by Lloyd Llewellyn-jones

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The clothing and ornament of Greek women signalled much about the status and morality assigned to them. Yet this revealing aspect of women's history has been very little studied. In this collection of new papers 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.

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ISBN:
9780715631300
Editor:
Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd
Publisher:
Classical Press of Wales
Editor:
Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd
Subject:
General
Subject:
Women
Subject:
Beauty & Grooming - General
Subject:
Costume
Subject:
Women in art
Subject:
Greece Social life and customs.
Publication Date:
April 2002
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
300
Dimensions:
970x602x77 140

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