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Title Roman dress and the fabrics of Roman culture / edited by Jonathan Edmondson and Alison Keith.

Publication Info. Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, [2008]
Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Gibson Library Connections, 2010.
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 370 pages, 54 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Phoenix. Supplementary volume = Tome supplémentaire ; XLVI
Studies in gender ; II
Studies in Greek and Roman social history ; I
Phoenix. Supplementary volume ; XLVI.
Phoenix. Supplementary volume. Studies in Gender ; II.
Phoenix. Supplementary volume. Studies in Greek and Roman social history ; I.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-329) and indexes.
Contents Public dress and social control in late republican and early imperial Rome / Jonathan Edmondson -- Togam virilem sumere : coming of age in the Roman world / Fanny Dolansky -- The double identity of Roman portrait statues : costumes and their symbolism at Rome / Michael Koortbojian -- The 'dark side' of the toga / Michelle George -- (Un)dressed to kill : viewing the retiarius / Michael Carter -- The Appearance of the Young Roman Girl / Kelly Olson -- Covering the head at Rome : ritual and gender / Elaine Fantham -- Designing women : the representation of women's toiletries on funerary monuments in Roman Italy / Leslie Shumka -- Sartorial elegance and poetic finesse in the Sulpician corpus / Alison Keith -- The woven garment as literary metaphor : the peplos in Ciris 9-41 / Riemer Faber -- Spinning the trabea : consular robes and propaganda in the Panegyrics of Claudian / Michael Dewar -- Appearing for the defence : Apuleius on display / Keith Bradley -- Tertullian's De pallio and Roman dress in North Africa / T. Corey Brennan -- Prudery and chic in late antique clothing / Guy P.R. Metraux.
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Language Includes some text in Latin.
Subject Clothing and dress -- Social aspects -- Rome.
Clothing and dress -- Symbolic aspects -- Rome.
Clothing and dress -- Rome.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Edmondson, Jonathan.
Keith, Alison Mary.
Other Form: Print version: Roman dress and the fabrics of Roman culture. Toronto [Ont.] ; Buffalo [N.Y.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2008274978
ISBN 9781442689039 (electronic book)
144268903X (electronic book)
9780802093196
0802093191
9781442610798
1442610794