Aphrodite's Tortoise : The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece, Hardback Book

Aphrodite's Tortoise : The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece Hardback

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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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