Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 151 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 256 g
Reihe: Chronoi
Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 151 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 256 g
Reihe: Chronoi
ISBN: 978-3-11-914201-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Textiles accompany us throughout our lives, , from the cradle to the grave. Aspects of time, seasons and chronology play an important role when exploring textiles and clothes in antiquity. The time of textiles appears highly gendered, embodied, tangible, and concrete. Textiles follow their own timeframes and paces, and they connect us to the past in an intimate and diachronic way because we still wear woven fabrics, as people did in antiquity.
Textiles themselves are ephemeral and rarely survive in archaeological contexts. But when they do, they can show evidence of a long life.
This book is about the time of textiles in ancient Greece: how time was articulated and conceived via clothing and textile production and how clothes conveyed time, seasons, ages, lifetimes and chronological periods. Textiles moreover symbolized eternity and destiny, as the spinning goddesses of fate called by the ancient Greeks. These goddesses spin, measure and cut the thread of a person's life.
The book invites university students in history, archaeology and classics, as well as interested readers, craft communities and Humanities scholars to reflect on diverse dimensions of time in ancient Greece through the study of textiles and clothes.
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- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie spezieller Regionen und Zeitalter
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
