1963 – Mankiewicz, Cleopatra
Queen Cleopatra of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.
Category: ancient
Bibliography
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Barber, E. J. W. Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times. New York: Norton, 1995. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60179765.
Bonfante, Larissa. Etruscan Dress. Updated ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52031418.
Cifarelli, Megan, and Laura Gawlinski, eds. What Shall I Say of Clothes?: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Study of Dress in Antiquity. Selected Papers on Ancient Art and Architecture, number 3. Boston: Archaeological Institute of America, 2017. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/991862583.
Crowfoot, Elisabeth. “A Romano-Egyptian Dress of the First Century B.C.?” Textile History 20, no. 2 (January 1, 1989): 123–28. https://doi.org/10.1179/004049689793700239.
Edmondson, J. C., and Alison Keith, eds. Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture. Phoenix. Supplementary Volume = Tome Supplémentaire 46. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/706877847.
Glob, P. V. The Bog People; Iron Age Man Preserved. Ithaca: Cornell university press, 1969. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/769662146.
Granger-Taylor, H. “Weaving Clothes to Shape in the Ancient World: The Tunic and Toga of the Arringatore.” Textile History 13, no. 1 (January 1, 1982): 3–25. https://doi.org/10.1179/004049682793690968.
Gullberg, Elsa, and Paul Åström. The Thread of Ariadne. A Study of Ancient Greek Dress. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, v. 21. Göteborg: P. Åström, (S. Vägen 61), 1970. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/489913845.
King, Donald. “Roman and Byzantine Dress in Egypt.” Costume 30, no. 1 (January 1, 1996): 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1179/cos.1996.30.1.1.
Klepper, Erhard, and James Laver. Costume in Antiquity; 480 Illustrations. London: Thames and Hudson, 1964. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/493121803.
Papantōniou, Iōanna. Greek Dress: From Ancient Times to the Early 20th Century. Athens: Commercial Bank of Greece, 2000. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/833886057.
Sebesta, Judith L. The World of Roman Costume. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2001. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/265025793.
Spindler, Konrad. The man in the ice: the amazing inside story of the 5000 year old body found trapped in a glacier in the Alps. London: Phoenix, 2001. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/923716574.
Stauffer, Annemarie. Textiles of Late Antiquity. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/862589043.
Tacitus, Cornelius. The Agricola ; and, The Germania. Translated by Harold B Mattingly and J. B Rives. London: Penguin, 2010. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/973306571.
Vincent, Susan J., and Mary Harlow, eds. A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion: Antiquity (500BCE-800AD). London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/967107605.
Watson, Philip J. Costume of Old Testament Peoples. New York: Chelsea House, 1987. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/559416965.
Watson, Philip J., and Jack Cassin-Scott. Costume of Ancient Egypt. New York: Chelsea House, 1987. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/246269991.
Williams, Dyfri, and Jack Ogden. Greek Gold: Jewellery of the Classical World. London: British Museum Press, 1994. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/422799018.
Wilson, Lillian M. The Roman Toga. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Archaeology, no. 1. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1924. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/963581613.
Primary Sources
Tacitus, Cornelius. The Agricola ; and, The Germania. Translated by Harold B Mattingly and J. B Rives. London: Penguin, 2010. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/973306571.
Prehistoric, Ancient Mesopotamia & Egypt
Barber, E. J. W. Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times. New York: Norton, 1995. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60179765.
Cifarelli, Megan, and Laura Gawlinski, eds. What Shall I Say of Clothes?: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Study of Dress in Antiquity. Selected Papers on Ancient Art and Architecture, number 3. Boston: Archaeological Institute of America, 2017. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/991862583.
Crowfoot, Elisabeth. “A Romano-Egyptian Dress of the First Century B.C.?” Textile History 20, no. 2 (January 1, 1989): 123–28. https://doi.org/10.1179/004049689793700239.
Glob, P. V. The Bog People; Iron Age Man Preserved. Ithaca: Cornell university press, 1969. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/769662146.
King, Donald. “Roman and Byzantine Dress in Egypt.” Costume 30, no. 1 (January 1, 1996): 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1179/cos.1996.30.1.1.
Spindler, Konrad. The man in the ice: the amazing inside story of the 5000 year old body found trapped in a glacier in the Alps. London: Phoenix, 2001. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/923716574.
Stauffer, Annemarie. Textiles of Late Antiquity. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/862589043.
Watson, Philip J. Costume of Old Testament Peoples. New York: Chelsea House, 1987. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/559416965.
Watson, Philip J., and Jack Cassin-Scott. Costume of Ancient Egypt. New York: Chelsea House, 1987. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/246269991.
Greek, Etruscan & Roman
Barber, E. J. W. Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times. New York: Norton, 1995. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60179765.
Bonfante, Larissa. Etruscan Dress. Updated ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52031418.
Cifarelli, Megan, and Laura Gawlinski, eds. What Shall I Say of Clothes?: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Study of Dress in Antiquity. Selected Papers on Ancient Art and Architecture, number 3. Boston: Archaeological Institute of America, 2017. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/991862583.
Crowfoot, Elisabeth. “A Romano-Egyptian Dress of the First Century B.C.?” Textile History 20, no. 2 (January 1, 1989): 123–28. https://doi.org/10.1179/004049689793700239.
Edmondson, J. C., and Alison Keith, eds. Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture. Phoenix. Supplementary Volume = Tome Supplémentaire 46. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/706877847.
Granger-Taylor, H. “Weaving Clothes to Shape in the Ancient World: The Tunic and Toga of the Arringatore.” Textile History 13, no. 1 (January 1, 1982): 3–25. https://doi.org/10.1179/004049682793690968.
Gullberg, Elsa, and Paul Åström. The Thread of Ariadne. A Study of Ancient Greek Dress. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, v. 21. Göteborg: P. Åström, (S. Vägen 61), 1970. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/489913845.
King, Donald. “Roman and Byzantine Dress in Egypt.” Costume 30, no. 1 (January 1, 1996): 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1179/cos.1996.30.1.1.
Papantōniou, Iōanna. Greek Dress: From Ancient Times to the Early 20th Century. Athens: Commercial Bank of Greece, 2000. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/833886057.
Sebesta, Judith L. The World of Roman Costume. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2001. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/265025793.
Tacitus, Cornelius. The Agricola ; and, The Germania. Translated by Harold B Mattingly and J. B Rives. London: Penguin, 2010. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/973306571.
Vincent, Susan J., and Mary Harlow, eds. A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion: Antiquity (500BCE-800AD). London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/967107605.
Williams, Dyfri, and Jack Ogden. Greek Gold: Jewellery of the Classical World. London: British Museum Press, 1994. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/422799018.
Wilson, Lillian M. The Roman Toga. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Archaeology, no. 1. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1924. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/963581613.
Surveys & General Overviews
Barber, E. J. W. Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times. New York: Norton, 1995. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60179765.
Cifarelli, Megan, and Laura Gawlinski, eds. What Shall I Say of Clothes?: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Study of Dress in Antiquity. Selected Papers on Ancient Art and Architecture, number 3. Boston: Archaeological Institute of America, 2017. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/991862583.
Klepper, Erhard, and James Laver. Costume in Antiquity; 480 Illustrations. London: Thames and Hudson, 1964. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/493121803.
Papantōniou, Iōanna. Greek Dress: From Ancient Times to the Early 20th Century. Athens: Commercial Bank of Greece, 2000. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/833886057.
Vincent, Susan J., and Mary Harlow, eds. A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion: Antiquity (500BCE-800AD). London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/967107605.
Filmography
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Prehistoric
Annaud, Jean-Jacques. Quest for Fire, 1982. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082484/.
Chaffey, Don. One Million Years B.C., 1967. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060782/.
Chapman, Michael. The Clan of the Cave Bear, 1986. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090848/.
Connor, Kevin. The People That Time Forgot, 1977. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076535/.
Emmerich, Roland. 10,000 BC, 2008. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443649/.
Gottlieb, Carl. Caveman, 1981. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082146/.
Hawks, Howard. Fig Leaves, 1926. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016854/.
Ancient Mesopotamia & Egypt
Curtiz, Michael. The Egyptian, 1954. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046949/.
DeMille, Cecil B. The Ten Commandments. Paramount Pictures, 1956. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049833.
DeMille, Cecil B. The Ten Commandments. Paramount Pictures, 1923. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0014532.
DeMille, Cecil B. Samson and Delilah, 1950. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041838/.
DeMille, Cecil B. Cleopatra. Biography, Drama, History, 1934. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024991/.
Edwards, J. Gordon. Cleopatra, 1917. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0007801/.
Griffith, D. W. Intolerance: A Sun-Play of the Ages: A Drama of Comparisons. Triangle Film Corporation, 1916. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0006864.
Hawks, Howard. Land of the Pharaohs, 1955. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048283/.
Pascal, Gabriel. Caesar and Cleopatra, 1946. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038390/.
Thorpe, Richard. The Prodigal, 1955. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048517/.
Young, Roger. Joseph, 1995. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113483/.
Greek, Etruscan & Roman
Bekmambetov, Timur. Ben-Hur. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Paramount Pictures, 2016. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2638144/.
Blasetti, Alessandro. Fabiola, 1951. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041342/.
Brass, Tinto, and Bob Guccione. Caligula, 1980. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080491/.
Camerini, Mario. Ulysses, 1955. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047630/.
Daves, Delmer. Demetrius and the Gladiators, 1954. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046899/.
Davis, Desmond. Clash of the Titans, 1981. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082186/.
DeMille, Cecil B. The Sign of the Cross, 1933. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023470/.
Dieterle, William. Salome, 1953. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046269/.
Edel, Uli. Caesar, 2003. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284741/.
Guazzoni, Enrico. Quo Vadis?, 1913. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0002445/.
Koster, Henry. The Robe, 1953. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046247/.
Kubrick, Stanley. Spartacus. Universal Pictures, 1960. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054331.
LeRoy, Mervyn, and Anthony Mann. Quo Vadis, 1951. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043949/.
Lester, Richard. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. United Artists, 1966. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060438.
Leterrier, Louis. Clash of the Titans, 2010. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800320/.
Lubin, Arthur. Night in Paradise, 1946. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038778/.
Mankiewicz, Joseph L. Julius Caesar, 1953. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045943/.
Petersen, Wolfgang. Troy. Warner Bros. Pictures, 2004. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0332452.
Ray, Nicholas. King of Kings, 1961. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055047/.
Rossen, Robert. Alexander the Great, 1956. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048937/.
Schoedsack, Ernest B., and Merian C. Cooper. The Last Days of Pompeii, 1935. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026605/.
Scott, Ridley. Gladiator. Dreamworks, 2000. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172495.
Seiter, William A., and Gregory La Cava. One Touch of Venus, 1948. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040669/.
Sidney, George. Jupiter’s Darling, 1955. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048239/.
Snyder, Zack. 300, 2007. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416449/.
Stevens, George, and David Lean. The Greatest Story Ever Told, 1965. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059245/.
Stone, Oliver. Alexander, 2004. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346491/.
Wise, Robert. Helen of Troy, 1956. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049301/.
Wyler, William. Ben-Hur. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 1959. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052618.
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Assyrian
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beadnet dress
A decorative sheath dress made of beads worn in ancient Egypt.
chiton
An ancient Greek garment created from a single piece of cloth wrapped around the body and held together by pins at the shoulders.
chlamys
A chlamys is a rectangular cloak fastened at the neck or shoulder that wraps around the body like a cape.
clavus/clavi
Decorative vertical stripes that ran over the shoulder on the front and back of a Late Roman or Byzantine tunic.
Egyptian
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Etruscan
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exomis
A short, asymmetrical wrap garment pinned at the left shoulder, worn by men in Ancient Greece.
eye of Horus
The eye of Horus, or Wedjat eye, is an ancient Egyptian symbol that represents the eye of the falcon-headed god Horus and symbolizes healing and regeneration and was often worn for protection.
faience
Faience is a man-made ceramic material that was often used in ancient Egypt to make jewelry and devotional objects. It is usually a blue color.
fibula
The fibula, which was popular in Greek culture, served as a pin to both hold garments together and to show status of those with prestige or power within society.
Greek
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himation
An rectangular cloak wrapped around the body and thrown over the left shoulder worn by the ancient Greeks.
huipilli/huipil
A woven rectangular shirt worn by women in Central America beginning in ancient times.
katazome (stencil printing)
A traditional Japanese method for printing designs onto fabric using a stencil and paste-resist dyes.
kaunakes
One of the earliest forms of clothing. Made from goat or sheep’s wool and meant to be worn around the waist like a skirt, it is recognizable by its fringe detailing.
kohl
A black material made out of minerals such as galena and used for eyeliner and eye protection in ancient Egypt.
Minoan
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nemes headdress
Starched linen headdress worn only by royals in ancient Egypt.
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