Month: September 2015

• Good Mourning: Roman Clothing, Courtrooms, and the Psychology of Color

  

  Romans often reserved the dark colors of mourning for a trip to the courtroom. Usually it was the defendants who chose to clothe themselves in dark and ragged vestments–though some people broke with this habit. In a letter dated to 468 CE, the diplomat and bishop Sidonius Apollinaris discussed the treason trial of a friend and Praetorian prefect named Arvandus […]

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  September 25, 2015

  ancient clothing, color, law

  ancient fashion, clothing, color, funeral, mourning, roman, roman law