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Aphrodite's Tortoise: The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece - Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd
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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. Llewellyn-Jones' work proceeds from literary and, notably, from iconographic evidence.

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Aphrodite's Tortoise: The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece 2003, Classical Press of Wales, Swansea

ISBN-13: 9780954384531

Hardcover

Aphrodite's Tortoise: The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece 2003, Classical Press of Wales, Swansea

ISBN-13: 9780715631829

Hardcover