Dress And The Roman Woman

Author : Kelly Olson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134121205

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Dress and the Roman Woman by Kelly Olson Pdf

In ancient Rome, the subtlest details in dress helped to distinguish between levels of social and moral hierarchy. Clothes were a key part of the sign systems of Roman civilization – a central aspect of its visual language, for women as well as men. This engaging book collects and examines artistic evidence and literary references to female clothing, cosmetics and ornament in Roman antiquity, deciphering their meaning and revealing what it meant to be an adorned woman in Roman society. Cosmetics, ornaments and fashion were often considered frivolous, wasteful or deceptive, which reflects ancient views about the nature of women. However, Kelly Olson uses literary evidence to argue that women often took pleasure in fashioning themselves, and many treated adornment as a significant activity, enjoying the social status, influence and power that it signified. This study makes an important contribution to our knowledge of Roman women and is essential reading for anyone interested in ancient Roman life.

Author : Kelly Olson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317392514

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Masculinity and Dress in Roman Antiquity by Kelly Olson Pdf

In Masculinity and Dress in Roman Antiquity, Olson argues that clothing functioned as part of the process of communication by which elite male influence, masculinity, and sexuality were made known and acknowledged, and furthermore that these concepts interconnected in socially significant ways. This volume also sets out the details of masculine dress from literary and artistic evidence and the connection of clothing to rank, status, and ritual. This is the first monograph in English to draw together the myriad evidence for male dress in the Roman world, and examine it as evidence for men’s self-presentation, status, and social convention.

Author : Jan Radicke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110711554

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Roman Women’s Dress by Jan Radicke Pdf

The book concerns female dress in Roman life and literature. The main focus is on female Roman dress as it may have been worn in daily life in Rome and in a social environment influenced by Roman culture in the time from the beginnings of the Republic until the end of the 2nd century AD. There is, however, a certain surplus as to its contents because many Latin texts also talk about mythical Greek dress and the largely fictional early Roman dress. Altogether, large parts of the history of Roman dress are only known to us through what scholars thought about it in Classical and Late Antiquity. For this reason, this book is not only about real female Roman dress, but also about the ancient pseudo-discourse on early female Roman dress, which has been taken too seriously by modern scholarship. This pseudo-discourse has been mixed together with real facts to produce an ahistorical fabric. It therefore appeared necessary to break with this old tradition and to take a completely new path. The detailed analysis of many texts on female Roman dress is the basis of this new handbook meant for philologists, historians, and archaeologists alike.

Author : Jonathan Edmondson,Alison Keith
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442691896

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Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture by Jonathan Edmondson,Alison Keith Pdf

Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture investigates the social symbolism and cultural poetics of dress in the ancient Roman world in the period from 200 BCE-400 CE. Editors Jonathan Edmondson and Alison Keith and the contributors to this volume explore the diffusion of Roman dress protocols at Rome and in the Roman imperial context by looking at Rome's North African provinces in particular, a focus that previous studies have overlooked or dealt with only in passing. Another unique aspect of this collection is that it goes beyond the male elite to address a wider spectrum of Roman society. Chapters deal with such topics as masculine attire, strategies for self-expression for Roman women within a dress code prescribed by a patriarchal culture, and the complex dynamics of dress in imperial Roman culture, both literary and artistic. This volume further investigates the literary, legal, and iconographic evidence to provide anthropologically-informed readings of Roman clothing. This collection of original essays employs a range of methodological approaches - historical, literary critical, philological, art historical, sociological and anthropological - to offer a thorough discussion of one of the most central issues in Roman culture.

Author : Kelly Olson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317392521

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Masculinity and Dress in Roman Antiquity by Kelly Olson Pdf

In Masculinity and Dress in Roman Antiquity, Olson argues that clothing functioned as part of the process of communication by which elite male influence, masculinity, and sexuality were made known and acknowledged, and furthermore that these concepts interconnected in socially significant ways. This volume also sets out the details of masculine dress from literary and artistic evidence and the connection of clothing to rank, status, and ritual. This is the first monograph in English to draw together the myriad evidence for male dress in the Roman world, and examine it as evidence for men’s self-presentation, status, and social convention.

Author : Alexandra Croom
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781445612447

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Roman Clothing and Fashion by Alexandra Croom Pdf

A detailed, finely researched and profusely illustrated history of clothing and fashion in the Roman Empire.

Author : Bruce W. Winter
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0802849717

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Roman Wives, Roman Widows by Bruce W. Winter Pdf

During the late Republic and early Empire, the new woman' made her appearance. This was a wife or widow of means who took part in life outside the walls of her house, including wider society, business and extra-marital affairs.

Author : Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones,Glenys Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134589159

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Greek and Roman Dress from A to Z by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones,Glenys Davies Pdf

Who dressed as a woman in an attempt to commit adultery with Julius Caesar's wife? How did the ancient Greeks make blusher from seaweed? Just how does one wear a toga?If, as many claim, the importance of clothes lies in their detail, then this a book that no sartorially savvy Classicist should be without. Greek and Roman Dress from A to Z is an alphabetized compendium of styles and accessories that form the well-known classical image: a reference source of stitches, drapery, hairstyles, colours, fabrics and jewellery, and an analysis of the intricate system of social meanings that they comprise.The entries range in length from a few lines to a few pages and cover individual aspects of dress alongside surveys of wider topics and illuminating socio-cultural analysis, drawn from ancient art, literature and archaeology. For those who want to take their reading further, there are references to both primary sources and modern scholarship.This book is be fascinating for anyone delving into it with an interest in style and dress, and an invaluable companion for any classicist.

Author : Judith Lynn Sebesta,Larissa Bonfante
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : 0299138542

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The World of Roman Costume by Judith Lynn Sebesta,Larissa Bonfante Pdf

Thirteen scholarly and well-illustrated essays survey, document and elucidate over a thousand years of Roman garments and accessories, including Etruscan influences, Near Eastern fashions and the transition towards early Christian garb.

Author : Mary Harlow,Marie-Louise Nosch
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781782977186

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Greek and Roman Textiles and Dress by Mary Harlow,Marie-Louise Nosch Pdf

Twenty chapters present the range of current research into the study of textiles and dress in classical antiquity, stressing the need for cross and inter-disciplinarity study in order to gain the fullest picture of surviving material. Issues addressed include: the importance of studying textiles to understand economy and landscape in the past; different types of embellishments of dress from weaving techniques to the (late introduction) of embroidery; the close links between the language of ancient mathematics and weaving; the relationships of iconography to the realities of clothed bodies including a paper on the ground breaking research on the polychromy of ancient statuary; dye recipes and methods of analysis; case studies of garments in Spanish, Viennese and Greek collections which discuss methods of analysis and conservation; analyses of textile tools from across the Mediterranean; discussions of trade and ethnicity to the workshop relations in Roman fulleries. Multiple aspects of the production of textiles and the social meaning of dress are included here to offer the reader an up-to-date account of the state of current research. The volume opens up the range of questions that can now be answered when looking at fragments of textiles and examining written and iconographic images of dressed individuals in a range of media. The volume is part of a pair together with Prehistoric, Ancient Near Eastern and Aegean Textiles and Dress: an interdisciplinary anthology edited by Mary Harlow, C_cile Michel and Marie-Louise Nosch

Author : Augustin Challamel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Clothing and dress
ISBN : NYPL:33433077543027

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The History of Fashion in France by Augustin Challamel Pdf

Author : Eve D'Ambra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521818391

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Roman Women by Eve D'Ambra Pdf

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Author : John Percy Vyvian Dacre Balsdon
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007506731

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Roman Women by John Percy Vyvian Dacre Balsdon Pdf

Author : Mary Beard
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 743 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631491252

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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard Pdf

New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Foreign Affairs, and Kirkus Reviews Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) Shortlisted for the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) A San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Gift Guide Selection A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection A sweeping, "magisterial" history of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists shows why Rome remains "relevant to people many centuries later" (Atlantic). In SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome "with passion and without technical jargon" and demonstrates how "a slightly shabby Iron Age village" rose to become the "undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean" (Wall Street Journal). Hailed by critics as animating "the grand sweep and the intimate details that bring the distant past vividly to life" (Economist) in a way that makes "your hair stand on end" (Christian Science Monitor) and spanning nearly a thousand years of history, this "highly informative, highly readable" (Dallas Morning News) work examines not just how we think of ancient Rome but challenges the comfortable historical perspectives that have existed for centuries. With its nuanced attention to class, democratic struggles, and the lives of entire groups of people omitted from the historical narrative for centuries, SPQR will to shape our view of Roman history for decades to come.

Author : Christopher A. Faraone,Laura K. McClure
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299213138

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Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World by Christopher A. Faraone,Laura K. McClure Pdf

Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World explores the implications of sex-for-pay across a broad span of time, from ancient Mesopotamia to the early Christian period. In ancient times, although they were socially marginal, prostitutes connected with almost every aspect of daily life. They sat in brothels and walked the streets; they paid taxes and set up dedications in religious sanctuaries; they appeared as characters—sometimes admirable, sometimes despicable—on the comic stage and in the law courts; they lived lavishly, consorting with famous poets and politicians; and they participated in otherwise all-male banquets and drinking parties, where they aroused jealousy among their anxious lovers. The chapters in this volume examine a wide variety of genres and sources, from legal and religious tracts to the genres of lyric poetry, love elegy, and comic drama to the graffiti scrawled on the walls of ancient Pompeii. These essays reflect the variety and vitality of the debates engendered by the last three decades of research by confronting the ambiguous terms for prostitution in ancient languages, the difficulty of distinguishing the prostitute from the woman who is merely promiscuous or adulterous, the question of whether sacred or temple prostitution actually existed in the ancient Near East and Greece, and the political and social implications of literary representations of prostitutes and courtesans.