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Aphrodite's tortoise : the veiled woman of ancient Greece / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Swansea, Wales : Oakville, CT : Classical Press of Wales ; Distributor in the United States, David Brown, ©2003.
Subjects:
Veils > Social aspects > Greece.
Veils in art.
Women in art.
Sculpture, Greek.
Women > Greece > Social conditions.
Greece > Social conditions > To 146 B.C.
Table of Contents:
  • Veiling the ancient Greeks
  • Defining 'The veil'
  • Veil-styles in the ancient Greek world
  • Revealing the veil: problems in the iconography of veiling
  • Who Veils? Veiling and social identity in the ancient Greek sources
  • 'Veiled and ashamed'
  • Aphrodite's Tortoise: veiling, social separation and domestic space
  • From parthenos to gyne: veiling and the female life cycle
  • Veiling the polluted woman
  • The white and the black: conspicuous veiling.

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