Introduction1. Constraints and Contradictions: Whiteness and Femininity in Ancient Greece - Bridget M. Thomas2. The Graces and Colour Weaving - Beate Wagner-Hasel3. Transvestism or Travesty? Dance, Dress and Gender in Greek Vase-Painting - Tyler Jo Smith4. The 'Language' of Female Hunting Outfit in Ancient Greece - Eva Parisinou5. The Meaning of the Veil in Ancient Greek Culture - Douglas L. Cairns6. Investing the Barbarian? The Dress of Amazons in Athenian Art - Ruth Veness7. Levels of Concealment: The Dress of Hetairai and Pornai in Greek Texts - Andrew Dalby8. Visions of Gleaming Textiles and a Clay Core: Textiles, Greek Women, and Pandora - Judith Lynn Sebesta9. Clutching at Clothes - Sue Blundell10. A Woman's View? Dress, Eroticism, and the Ideal Female Body in Athenian Art - Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones11. Controlling Women's Dress: Gynaikonomoi - Daniel Ogden12. Clothes as Sign: The Case of the Large and Small Herculaneum Women - Glenys Davies13. 'Dedicated Followers of Fashion': John Chrysostom on Female Dress - Aideen M. HartneyIndex

The essays, though concise, are mostly of high quality, opening up the field of 'Greek dress in social and cultural context', a field with enormous potential, and no shortage of material. Indeed this is one of the more substantial and original recent volumes on Greek women and their (self-)representation tout court. The papers of Blundell and Ogden, in particular, deserve to become mainstays of student bibliographies.

The clothing and ornament of Greek women signalled much about the status and the morality assigned to them. This collection of studies uses evidence from vase-painting and sculpture, as well as Greek literature, to reconstruct how women of the ancient Greek world were perceived and how they lived.