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Charles Seltman, a fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, curator of the Archaeology Museum there and an editor of The Cambridge Ancient History, illustrated a chapter titled "The new woman" in his book Women in Antiquity with a 1950s model wearing an identical bikini against the 4th-century mosaics from Piazza Armerina as part of a sisterhood ...
Women in Greek and Roman civilizations had at times used breastbands like taenia in Rome to enhance smaller busts but more often, women of the masculine Greco-Roman world, where unisex clothes were often preferred, used breastbands like apodesmes in Greece, and fascia or mamillare in Rome to suppress their breasts.
Queen Ahmose, Pharaoh Thutmose I, and daughter Neferubity – note the youthful sidelock on the child and the royal attire and wigs on the adults. Although heads were shaven as both as a sign of nobility [10] and due to the hot climate, hairstyle was a huge part of ancient Egyptian fashion through the use of wigs. [11]
For most of the period from 286 to 480, the Roman Empire, though remaining a single polity, was administratively divided into the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire. Through most of this period, the separated imperial courts had their own lines of succession, and as a result their own sequences of concurrent Roman empresses.
The Holy Roman Empress or Empress of the Holy Roman Empire (Kaiserin des Heiligen Römischen Reiches) was the wife or widow of the Holy Roman Emperor. The elective dignity of Holy Roman emperor was restricted to males only, but some empresses, such as Theophanu and Maria Theresa , were de facto rulers of the Empire.
Valeria, the name of the women of the Valeria gens. Valeria, first priestess of Fortuna Muliebris in 488 BC [1]; Aemilia Tertia (с. 230 – 163 or 162 BC), wife of Scipio Africanus and mother of Cornelia (see below), noted for the unusual freedom given her by her husband, her enjoyment of luxuries, and her influence as role model for elite Roman women after the Second Punic War.
Women in Ancient Rome: A Sourcebook (Bloomsbury Sources in Ancient History). New York: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1441164216. Osgood, Josiah. Turia: A Roman Woman's Civil War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-19-983235-4. Rohr Vio, Francesca (2022). Powerful matrons: New political actors in the late Roman republic (1a ed ...
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