In Masculinity and Dress in Roman Antiquity, Olson argues that clothing functioned as part of the process of communication by which elite male influence, masculinity, and sexuality were made known and acknowledged, and furthermore that these concepts interconnected in socially significant ways. This volume also sets out the details of masculine dress from literary and artistic evidence and the connection of clothing to rank, status, and ritual. This is the first monograph in English to draw together the myriad evidence for male dress in the Roman world, and examine it as evidence for men's self-presentation, status, and social convention.
Author(s): Kelly Olson
Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: xiv+200
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of
Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Roman clothing
Method
Terminology
Masculinity studies
Rank and status
Cloth as economic staple
Outline
Notes
1. Tunic and toga: clothing and rank
Tunic
Toga
Conclusions
Notes
2. Other aspects of costume
Jewelry and rank
Other male clothing
Abolla
Bardocucullus/cucullus
Laena
Conclusions
Notes
3. Poverty, mourning, and sordes
Lower class men
Emotional black
Mourning
Sordes in the courts
Sordes as a form of public protest
Mourning, poverty, and sordes
The toga perversa
Conclusions
Notes
4. Clothing and status
Fabric
Color
Footwear
Jewelry and status: rings
Slaves and status
The clotheshorse
Folds in clothing
Clothing and cleanliness
Sumptuary legislation and the morality of clothing
Conclusions
Notes
5. Class and sexuality
Sexuality
The male sartorial code
The signs of effeminacy
Youth, urbanity, heterosexuality
Pre-modern effeminacy and dandies117
Ancient dandies
Dandies, effeminacy and class
Conclusions
Notes
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
