Color-terms in social and cultural context in ancient Rome /
Romans attached nuanced implications to color-terms which went beyond their literal meaning, using these terms as a form of cultural assessment, defining their social values and order. By analyzing the use and color words in specific contexts, we can gain greater insight into the Roman mind.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Piscataway, NJ :
Gorgias Press,
2013.
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Colección: | Gorgias studies in classical and late antiquity ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Texts, Translations, and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Different Hues, Different Views
- Modern Approaches to Roman Colors
- A Thematic Approach to the Subject
- Chapter One: Aulus Gellius' Colorful Digression
- The Color Debate: Latin Color Terms
- Greek Color-Terms
- Fronto and the Roman Artistic Background
- Favorinus and Physiognomy
- Summary
- Chapter Two: Ancient Dyes: Color Me Beautiful
- Purple Dyers
- Red Dyers
- Other Dyers
- Vitruvian ColorsSummary
- Chapter Three: Colored Clothing: You Are What You Wear
- Purple Colored Clothing
- Red Colored Clothing
- Blue and Green Colored Clothing
- Yellow Colored Clothing
- White, Gray, Black, and Brown
- Pullus
- Summary
- Chapter Four: Clothes Make the Man: Class and Color-Terms
- Trimalchio the Freedman
- The Freedman's Wife
- The Freedman's Feast
- Freedmen in Poetry
- Summary
- Chapter Five: Color Wars: Roman Chariot Teams
- The Setting
- The Teams
- The Greens
- The Blues
- The Reds, Whites, and OthersEpilogue
- Chapter Six: Color Physiognomy: You Are What You Look Like
- Descriptions of Emperors
- Descriptions of Ordinary Men
- Descriptions of Women
- Descriptions of Non-Romans
- Gauls, Germans, and Britons
- Assyrians, Egyptians, Ethiopians, Etruscans, and Indians
- Summary
- Chapter Seven: The Multicolored World of the Romans
- Versicolor
- Decolor and Decolorare
- Discolor
- Bicolor
- Multicolor
- Omnicolor
- Unicolor and Concolor
- Summary
- Conclusions: Did Color-Terms Have an Ancient History?