This book traces the toga's history from its origins in the Etruscan garment known as the tebenna, through its use as an everyday garment in the Republican period to its increasingly exclusive role as a symbol of privilege in the Principate and its decline in use in late antiquity. It aims to shift the scholarly view of the toga from one dominated by its role as a feature of Roman art to one in which it is seen as an everyday object and a highly charged symbol that in its various forms was central to the definition and negotiation of important gender, age and status boundaries, as well as political stances and ideologies.
It discusses the toga's significance not just in Rome itself, but also in the provinces, where it reveals ideas about cultural identity, status and the role of the Roman state. The Toga and Roman Identity shows that, by looking in detail at the history of Rome's national garment, we can gain a better understanding of the complexities of Roman identity for different groups in society, as well as what it meant, at any given time, to be 'Roman'.
0 有用 Vealin 2024-04-01 18:25:07 天津
以toga（tebena）为切入点看罗马的identity如何投射在服装上，identity的内涵和演变，很有意思的一本书。提供了几个我之前不知道的点：toga很可能历史地起源于伊特鲁斯坎，最早不分性别地可穿戴，被赋予社会地位象征后才出现成年/未成年和男女的区别穿戴。toga是罗马身份的象征，也有自身的时尚演变，最后演变成拜占庭皇帝的trabea
0 有用 Vealin 2024-04-01 18:25:07 天津
以toga（tebena）为切入点看罗马的identity如何投射在服装上，identity的内涵和演变，很有意思的一本书。提供了几个我之前不知道的点：toga很可能历史地起源于伊特鲁斯坎，最早不分性别地可穿戴，被赋予社会地位象征后才出现成年/未成年和男女的区别穿戴。toga是罗马身份的象征，也有自身的时尚演变，最后演变成拜占庭皇帝的trabea