Roman Women's Dress: Literary Sources, Terminology, and Historical Development

by Jan Radicke and Jan

The book concerns female dress in Roman life and literature. The main focus is on female Roman dress as it may have been worn in daily life in Rome and in a social environment influenced by Roman culture in the time from the beginnings of the Republic until the end of the 2nd century AD. There is, however, a certain surplus as to its contents because many Latin texts also talk about mythical Greek dress and the largely fictional early Roman dress...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110710927
• ISBN13: 9783110710922
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 805 Pages
• Weight: 3.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"