Aphrodite's Tortoise: The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece

By Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

Book Overview

This study concludes that Greek women routinely wore the veil. The Greeks, popularly credited with the invention of civic openness, are revealed as also part of a more eastern tradition of seclusion.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0715631829
• ISBN13: 9780715631829
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"