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Aphrodite's
Tortoise. The veiled woman of Ancient Greece
by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
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. From the iconography as well
as the literature of Greece, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones shows that full
veiling of face and head was commonplace. He analyses the elaborate
Greek vocabulary for veiling, and explores what the veil was meant
to achieve. He also uses Greek and more recent - mainly Islamic -
evidence to show how women could exploit and subvert the veil to achieve
eloquent, sometimes emotional, communication. The author: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones has established himself as
an authority on the representation and dress of Greek women. He is
editor of Women's Dress in the Ancient Greek World (Classical Press
of Wales, 2002).
"This book is arguably the most important study
of Greek female dress in recent years. It deserves to be very widely
read."
- Sheila Dillon, The Classical Review, Vol 55, No 2, 2005, pp282-284
CONTENTS
Preface
and acknowledgements
1. Veiling the ancient Greeks
2. Defining the veil
3. Veil-styles
in the ancient Greek world
4. Revealing the veil: problems
in the iconography of veiling
5. Who veils? Veiling and social
identity in the ancient Greek sources
6. Veiled and ashamed
7. Aphrodite's Tortoise: veiling,
social separation and domestic space
8. From parthenos to gyne: veiling
and the female life cycle