Aphrodite's tortoise : the veiled woman of ancient Greece /
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. Llewellyn-Jones' work proceeds from literary and, notably, from iconogr...
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Swansea, Wales : Oakville, CT :
Classical Press of Wales ; Distributor in the United States, David Brown,
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