HORIZONTAL WOMEN: POSTURE AND SEX IN THE ROMAN CONVIVIUM.

Autor: Roller, Matthew
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Zdroj: American Journal of Philology; Fall2003, Vol. 124 Issue 3, p377-422, 46p, 4 Black and White Photographs
Abstrakt: Examines literary and visual evidence for women's dining posture in Rome during the time of the Roman Empire. Distinction of actual social practice from the ideology of representation; Argument that women could always dine reclining alongside a man; Significance of the sitting posture, seen mostly in sub-elite visual representations; Significance of postures attributed to women; Association of dining posture to sexual mores.
Databáze: Complementary Index