Dress in Mediterranean Antiquity: Greeks, Romans, Jews, Christians 0567684652, 9780567684653
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Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
List of Abbreviations
1 Introduction Alicia J. Batten and Kelly Olson
Section A Methods
2 Dress and Classical Studies Kelly Olson
3 Dress and Religious Studies Alicia J. Batten
4 Dress and Anthropology Lynne Hume
5 Dress and Sociology Beth E. Graybill
Section B Materials
6 Clothing in Marble and Bronze: The Representation of Dress in Greek and Roman Sculpture Glenys Davies
7 Greek Dress from the Inscriptional Evidence Laura Gawlinski
8 The Colours of Ancient Greek Dress Cecilie Brøns
9 Ornamenta Muliebria: Jewellery and Identity in the Roman Period Courtney Ward
10 Dress in the Desert: Archaeological Textiles as a Source for Work Clothes in Roman Egypt Lise Bender Jørgensen
11 Roman Women Dressing the Part: The Visual Vocabulary from Paintings and Mosaics Lisa A. Hughes
12 ‘They Leave behind Them Portraits of Their Wealth, Not Themselves’: Aspects of Self-Presentation in the Dress of the Deceased in Mummy Portraits and Portrait Mummies from Roman Egypt Lorelei H. Corcoran
Section C Meanings
13 Dress and Ceremony in Achaemenid Persia: The ‘*Gaunaka’ Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
14 Hair and Social Status in the Near East and Early Greece, c. 900–300 BCE Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
15 Stepping over the Line: Shoes and Boundary-Crossing in Ancient Greece Sue Blundell
16 Dress and Religious Ritual in Roman Antiquity Kelly Olson
17 Andromeda Unbound: Possession, Perception and Adornment in the House of the Dioscuri Neville McFerrin
18 On the Ambivalent Signification of Roman Crowns Andrew Gallia
19 Clothes Make the Jew: Was There Distinctive Jewish Dress in the Greco-Roman Period? Joshua Schwartz
20 What Did Mary Magdalene Look Like?: Images from the West, the East, Dura and Judaea Joan E. Taylor
21 Robes of Transfiguration and Salvation in Early Christian Texts Janelle Peters
22 Worn Stories: (Ad)dressing Wives in 1 Peter Kelsi Morrison-Atkins
23 Exposed! Nakedness and Clothing in the Book of Revelation Harry O. Maier
24 Dirty Laundry in the Christ Cult Alicia J. Batten
25 ‘He Must Buy Her New Clothes for Winter’: Women’s Attire in the Rabbinic Imagination of the Tannaitic Period Gail Labovitz
26 Textual Problems in Textile Research: The Use of the Talmud in Studies of Ancient Jewish Dress Katie Turner
Bibliography of Secondary Sources
Index
