Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "I wear this therefore I am" : the clothed body in the ancient world / Mary Harlow, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Liza Cleland
  • pt. 1. The clothed body in Egypt and the Aegean
  • The decorated body in ancient Egypt : hairstyles, cosmetics and tattoos / Joann Fletcher
  • The fashioning of Delilah : costume design, historicism and fantasy in Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah, 1949 / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
  • Reconstructing Aegean Bronze Age fashions / Ariane Marcar
  • Trailing tunics and sheepskin coats : dress and status in early Greece / Hans von Wees
  • pt. 2. The clothed body in classical Greece
  • Constru(ct)ing gender in the feminine Greek peplos / Mirielle Lee
  • New clothes, a new you : clothing and character in Aristophanes / James Robson
  • Beauty in rags : on rhakos in Aristophanic theatre / Silvia Milanezi
  • The semiosis of description : some reflections on fabric and colour in the Brauron inventories / Liza Cleland
  • Viewing and obscuring the female breast : glimpses of the ancient bra / Emma J. Stafford
  • pt. 3. The clothed body in Rome and late antiquity
  • The toga praetexta of Roman children and praetextate garments / Judith Sebesta
  • What made the Roman toga virilis? / Glenys Davies
  • Men are Mars, women are Venus : divine costumes in imperial Rome / Shelley Hales
  • Dress in the Historia Augusta : the role of dress in historical narrative / Mary Harlow
  • Get your kit on : some issues in the depiction of clothing in Byzantium / Liz James and Shaun Tougher
  • Tunics from Kasr al-Yahud / Orit Shamir.