Title Women's dress in the ancient Greek world / editor, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones ; contributors, Sue Blundell ... [et al.]
Publication Info London : Duckworth ; Swansea : Classical Press of Wales ; Oakville, CT : Distributor in the United States of America, David Brown Book Co., 2002
Location Call Number Status
 Onassis Library  GT550 .W66 2002    DEPARTMENT USE ONLY
Description xv, 260 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subjects Costume -- Greece -- History -- To 500
Women -- Greece -- Social conditions.
Art, Ancient -- Greece
Women in art.
Clothing and dress in art.
Additional Authors Jones, Lloyd Llewellyn, 1893-
Blundell, Sue.
ISBN 0715631306 (label)
OCLC 48679101