The Clothed Body In The Ancient World

Studies of the nude body have been around for many years, but rarely has scholarship looked at the clothed body. Yet the way we clothe ourselves says a great deal about the society we live in and our place within it. The papers in this volume provide fascinating snapshots of the clothed body in the ancient world. Once collected together, these snapshots reveal common themes in scholarship and allow a comparison of methodologies across disciplines and periods. Clothing the body is a complex and significant act, and this volume goes some way to unravelling the intricacies inherent in this sociocultural phenomenon.

List of contributors

vii

Acknowledgements

x

INTRODUCTION

'I Wear this Therefore I Am': The Clothed Body in the Ancient World

xi

PART I. THE CLOTHED BODY IN EGYPT AND THE AEGEAN

1. The Decorated Body in Ancient Egypt: Hairstyles, cosmetics and tattoos

Joann Fletcher

3

(11)

2. The Fashioning of Delilah. Costume Design, Historicism and Fantasy in Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah (1949)

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

14

(16)

3. Reconstructing Aegean Bronze Age Fashions

Ariane Marcar

30

(14)

4. Trailing Tunics and Sheepskin Coats: Dress and status in early Greece

Hans van Wees

44

(11)

PART II. THE CLOTHED BODY IN CLASSICAL GREECE

5. Constru(ct)ing Gender in the Feminine Greek Peplos

Mireille Lee

55

(10)

6. New Clothes, a New You: Clothing and character in Aristophanes

James Robson

65

(10)

7. Beauty in Rags. On rhakos in Aristophanic theatre

Silvia Milanezi

75

(12)

8. The Semiosis of Description: Some reflections on fabric and colour in the Brauron Inventories

Liza Cleland

87

(9)

9. Viewing and Obscuring the Female Breast: Glimpses of the ancient bra

Emma J. Stafford

96

(17)

PART III. THE CLOTHED BODY IN ROME AND LATE ANTIQUITY

10. The toga praetexta of Roman Children and Praetextate Garments

Judith Sebesta

113

(8)

11. What Made the Roman Toga virilis?

Glenys Davies

121

(10)

12. Men are Mars, Women are Venus: Divine costumes in Imperial Rome

Shelley Hales

131

(12)

13. Dress in the Historia Augusta: The role of dress in historical narrative

Mary Harlow

143

(11)

14. Get Your Kit On! Some issues in the depiction of clothing in Byzantium

Liz James and Shaun Tougher

154

(8)

15. Tunics from Kasr al-Yahud

Orit Shamir

162

(7)

Bibliography

169

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