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Title The clothed body in the ancient world / edited by Liza Cleland, Mary Harlow and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones.

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxbow ; Oakville, CT : David Brown Book Co. [distributor], [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 192 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium monochrome
Description text file
Note Conference proceedings.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-192).
Contents "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 von 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.
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Subject Clothing and dress -- History.
Clothing and dress.
History.
Clothing and dress -- Social aspects.
Clothing and dress -- Social aspects.
Human body -- Social aspects -- History.
Human body -- Social aspects.
Civilization, Classical.
Civilization, Classical.
Civilization, Ancient.
Civilization, Ancient.
Indexed Term Clothed body
Ancient world
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Cleland, Liza.
Harlow, Mary, 1956-
Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd.
Other Form: Print version: Clothed body in the ancient world. Oxford : Oxbow ; Oakville, CT : David Brown Book Co. [distributor], ©2005 (DLC) 2005482016 (OCoLC)57484772
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