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Aphrodite's Tortoise - The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece (Hardcover)
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Aphrodite's Tortoise - The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece (Hardcover)
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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 fully
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.
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