Aphrodite's Tortoise: The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece - Couverture rigide

Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0954384539 ISBN 13 : 9780954384531

Editeur : Classical Press of Wales, 2003

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Book by LlewellynJones Lloyd

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Greek women routinely wore the veil. That is the unexpected finding of this major study. The Greeks, rightly credited with the invention of civic openness, are revealed as also part of a more eastern tradition of seclusion. Llewellyn-Jones' work proceeds from literary and, notably, from iconographic evidence. In sculpture and vase painting it demonstrates the presence of the veil, often covering the head, but also more unobtrusively folded back onto the shoulders. This discreet fashion not only gave a priviledged view of the face to the ancient art consumer, but also, incidentally, allowed the veil to escape the notice of traditional modern scholarship. From Greek literary sources, the author shows that full veiling of the head and face was commonplace. He analyses the elaborate Greek vocabulary for veiling and explores what the veil meant to achieve. He shows that the veil was a conscious extension of the house and was often referred to as "tegidion", literally "a little roof". Veiling was thus an ingeneous compromise; it allowed women to circulate in public while maintaining the ideal of a house-bound existence. Alert to the different types of veil used, the author uses Greek and more modern evidence (mostly from the Arab world) to show how women could exploit and subvert the veil as a means of eloquent, sometimes emotional, communication.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Classical Press of Wales
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0954384539
• ISBN 13: 9780954384531
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 368