Body, Dress, and Identity in Ancient Greece

Applying modern dress theory to ancient evidence, this book reconstructs the social meanings attached to the dressed body in ancient Greece.

List of contents

1. Greek dress and dress theory; 2. Bodies in ancient Greece; 3. Body modification; 4. Garments; 5. Accessories; 6. The body as dress; 7. Social contexts of dress.

About the author

Mireille M. Lee is Professor of History of Art and Classical Studies at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee. She has published widely on various aspects of ancient Greek dress. She has held fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Center for Hellenic Studies, the Packard Foundation for the Humanities, and the Whiting Foundation. Her research and teaching focus on gender issues in antiquity and the modern world. She is currently at work on her next book, on the relationship between ancient Greek mirrors and the goddess Aphrodite.

Summary

This is the first general monograph on ancient Greek dress in English to be published in more than a century. By applying modern dress theory to the ancient evidence, this book reconstructs the social meanings attached to the dressed body in ancient Greece.

Product details

• Authors: Mireille M. Lee, Mireille M. (Vanderbilt University Lee, Lee Mireille M.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781107662537
• ISBN: 978-1-107-66253-7
• No. of pages: 381
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; European History, Ancient Greece, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, Fashion & society, Textile artworks, Ancient History, History of fashion, Gender studies, gender groups, Classical history / classical civilisation, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory