Dress in Mediterranean Antiquity: Greeks, Romans, Jews, Christians

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Insights from anthropology, religious studies, biblical studies, sociology, classics, and Jewish studies are here combined to provide a cutting-edge guide to dress and religion in the Greco-Roman World and the Mediterranean basin. Clothing, jewellery, cosmetics, and hairstyles are among the many aspects examined to show the variety of functions of dress in communication and in both establishing and defending identity. The volume begins by reviewing how scholars in the fields of classics, anthropology, religious studies, and sociology examine dress. The second section then looks at materials, including depictions of clothing in sculpture and in Egyptian mummy portraits. The third (and largest) part of the book then examines dress in specific contexts, beginning with Greece and Rome and going on to Jewish and Christian dress, with a specific focus on the intersection between dress, clothing and religion. By combining essays from over twenty scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds, the book provides a unique overview of different approaches to and contexts of dress in one volume, leading to a greater understanding of dress both within ancient societies and in the contemporary world. Cover Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction Alicia J. Batten and Kelly Olson Section A Methods 2 Dress and Classical Studies Kelly Olson 3 Dress and Religious Studies Alicia J. Batten 4 Dress and Anthropology Lynne Hume 5 Dress and Sociology Beth E. Graybill Section B Materials 6 Clothing in Marble and Bronze: The Representation of Dress in Greek and Roman Sculpture Glenys Davies 7 Greek Dress from the Inscriptional Evidence Laura Gawlinski 8 The Colours of Ancient Greek Dress Cecilie Brøns 9 Ornamenta Muliebria: Jewellery and Identity in the Roman Period Courtney Ward 10 Dress in the Desert: Archaeological Textiles as a Source for Work Clothes in Roman Egypt Lise Bender Jørgensen 11 Roman Women Dressing the Part: The Visual Vocabulary from Paintings and Mosaics Lisa A. Hughes 12 ‘They Leave behind Them Portraits of Their Wealth, Not Themselves’: Aspects of Self-Presentation in the Dress of the Deceased in Mummy Portraits and Portrait Mummies from Roman Egypt Lorelei H. Corcoran Section C Meanings 13 Dress and Ceremony in Achaemenid Persia: The ‘*Gaunaka’ Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 14 Hair and Social Status in the Near East and Early Greece, c. 900–300 BCE Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 15 Stepping over the Line: Shoes and Boundary-Crossing in Ancient Greece Sue Blundell 16 Dress and Religious Ritual in Roman Antiquity Kelly Olson 17 Andromeda Unbound: Possession, Perception and Adornment in the House of the Dioscuri Neville McFerrin 18 On the Ambivalent Signification of Roman Crowns Andrew Gallia 19 Clothes Make the Jew: Was There Distinctive Jewish Dress in the Greco-Roman Period? Joshua Schwartz 20 What Did Mary Magdalene Look Like?: Images from the West, the East, Dura and Judaea Joan E. Taylor 21 Robes of Transfiguration and Salvation in Early Christian Texts Janelle Peters 22 Worn Stories: (Ad)dressing Wives in 1 Peter Kelsi Morrison-Atkins 23 Exposed! Nakedness and Clothing in the Book of Revelation Harry O. Maier 24 Dirty Laundry in the Christ Cult Alicia J. Batten 25 ‘He Must Buy Her New Clothes for Winter’: Women’s Attire in the Rabbinic Imagination of the Tannaitic Period Gail Labovitz 26 Textual Problems in Textile Research: The Use of the Talmud in Studies of Ancient Jewish Dress Katie Turner Bibliography of Secondary Sources Index