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Ancient Greek Women’s Dress from Visual Sources

Student: Maltseva Daria

Supervisor: Valery Gushchin

Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (Perm)

Educational Programme: History (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2016

Image of women in Greek visual culture has always had a special place. Thus the Athenian vase painters portrayed female dress with special care. The present study shows that the evolution of the iconographic schemes, which reflect the peculiarities of ancient Greek women clothes’ representation, allow us not only to see, but in a different way to look at many aspects of ancient Athenians’ everyday reality and their perception of these. Because both garment as well as modes it was displayed in visual images, contain certain hidden meanings and messages. And the "content" of the costume, sealed by contemporaries in the objects of their everyday world, together with the historical and socio-cultural contexts give a completely new interpretation of the ancient Athenians’ realities.

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