| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 193 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Gorgias studies in classical and late antiquity ; 3
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Gorgias studies in classical and late antiquity ; 3.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Texts, Translations, and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Different Hues, Different Views -- Modern Approaches to Roman Colors -- A Thematic Approach to the Subject -- Chapter One: Aulus Gellius' Colorful Digression -- The Color Debate: Latin Color Terms -- Greek Color-Terms -- Fronto and the Roman Artistic Background -- Favorinus and Physiognomy -- Summary -- Chapter Two: Ancient Dyes: Color Me Beautiful -- Purple Dyers -- Red Dyers -- Other Dyers |
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Vitruvian ColorsSummary -- Chapter Three: Colored Clothing: You Are What You Wear -- Purple Colored Clothing -- Red Colored Clothing -- Blue and Green Colored Clothing -- Yellow Colored Clothing -- White, Gray, Black, and Brown -- Pullus -- Summary -- Chapter Four: Clothes Make the Man: Class and Color-Terms -- Trimalchio the Freedman -- The Freedman's Wife -- The Freedman's Feast -- Freedmen in Poetry -- Summary -- Chapter Five: Color Wars: Roman Chariot Teams -- The Setting -- The Teams -- The Greens -- The Blues |
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The Reds, Whites, and OthersEpilogue -- Chapter Six: Color Physiognomy: You Are What You Look Like -- Descriptions of Emperors -- Descriptions of Ordinary Men -- Descriptions of Women -- Descriptions of Non-Romans -- Gauls, Germans, and Britons -- Assyrians, Egyptians, Ethiopians, Etruscans, and Indians -- Summary -- Chapter Seven: The Multicolored World of the Romans -- Versicolor -- Decolor and Decolorare -- Discolor -- Bicolor -- Multicolor -- Omnicolor -- Unicolor and Concolor -- Summary -- Conclusions: Did Color-Terms Have an Ancient History? |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Rome -- Social life and customs.
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Rome (Empire) |
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Manners and customs. |
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Colors -- Social aspects -- Rome.
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Sociolinguistics -- Rome.
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Social structure -- Rome.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. |
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Colors -- Social aspects. |
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Social structure. |
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Sociolinguistics. |
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Farbbezeichnung. |
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Römisches Reich. |
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Symbolisme des couleurs -- Rome. |
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Couleur dans les vêtements -- Aspect social -- Antiquité. |
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Sociolinguistique -- Rome. |
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Rome -- Civilisation. |
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Rome. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Goldman, Rachael. Color-terms in social and cultural context in ancient Rome 9781611439144 (DLC) 2013035963 (OCoLC)857717823 |
| ISBN |
9781463203542 (electronic book) |
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1463203543 (electronic book) |
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9781611439144 |
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1611439140 |
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9781463235420 (electronic book) |
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1463235429 (electronic book) |
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