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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Trade ReviewThe essays, though concise, are mostly of high quality, opening up the field of 'Greek dress in social and cultural context', a field with enormous potential, and no shortage of material. Indeed this is one of the more substantial and original recent volumes on Greek women and their (self-)representation tout court. The papers of Blundell and Ogden, in particular, deserve to become mainstays of student bibliographies. -- James Davidson * Journal of Hellenistic Studies *
Table of ContentsIntroduction 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
