Introduction

PART 1: PEPLOS

1. From the Sixteen Women to the Weaver King: Political Weaving in Greece

2."Investiture," Peploplloria, Lusus Trniae: Political Weaving in Rome

PART 2: CHLAINA

3. Aphrodite Poikilthronos: Epithets, Cloaks,and Lovers

4. The Marriage of Peleus and Thetis: Nuptial Blankets in Rome

PART 3: TEXTUS

5. The Cloak of Phaedrus: The Prehistory of the "Text" in Greek

6. The Birth of an Ideogram: The Metaphor of the Textus in Latin

Appendix A. Note on Biological "Tissue"

Appendix B. Note on Cosmic "Weaving" Notes

Index

John Scheid is Director of Study at the École Pratique des Hautes Études at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.

Jesper Svenbro is a Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Paris.

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