Jonathan Edmondson

Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture

Herausgeber: Keith, Alison

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 154mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 756g
• ISBN-13: 9781442610798
• ISBN-10: 1442610794
• Artikelnr.: 28890193

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Edmondson is professor of History and Classical Studies in the Department of History at York University.

Inhaltsangabe

PrefaceContributors
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Introduction: From Costume History to Dress Studies
JONATHAN EDMONDSON and ALISON KEITH
PART I INVESTMENTS IN MASCULINITY
1. Public Dress and Social Control in Late Republican and Early Imperial
Rome
JONATHAN EDMONDSON
2. Togam virilem sumere: Coming of Age in the Roman World
FANNY DOLANSKY
3. The Double Identity of Roman Portrait Statues: Costumes and Their
Symbolism at Rome
MICHAEL KOORTBOJIAN
4. The ‘Dark Side’ of the Toga
MICHELE GEORGE
5. (Un)Dressed to Kill: Viewing the Retiarius
MICHAEL CARTER
PART II FASHIONING THE FEMALE
1. The Appearance of the Young Roman Girl
KELLY OLSON
2. Covering the Head at Rome: Ritual and Gender
ELAINE FANTHAM
3. Designing Women: The Representation of Women’s Toiletries on Funerary
Monuments in Roman Italy
LESLIE SHUMKA
4. Sartorial Elegance and Poetic Finesse in the Sulpician Corpus
ALISON KEITH
PART III THE CULTURAL POETICS OF DRESS
5. The Woven Garment as Literary Metaphor: The Peplos in Ciris 9–41
RIEMER FABER
6. Spinning the Trabea: Consular Robes and Propaganda in the Panegyrics of
Claudian
MICHAEL DEWAR
7. Appearing for the Defence: Apuleius on Display
KEITH BRADLEY
8. Tertullian’s De Pallio and Roman Dress in North Africa
T. COREY BRENNAN
9. Prudery and Chic in Late Antique Clothing
GUY P.R. METRAUX
References
Index Locorum
General Index