Month: April 2021

• At the Copa: Women, Clothing, and Color Codes in Roman Taverns

  

  On February 3, 326 CE, Constantine issued a legal clarification for Augustus’ Lex Julia de adulteriis, ruling that the wives of tavern owners (here labeled an uxor tabernarii) could be brought up on charges of adultery, but that the the barmaids working within the tavern could not be. Their lowly status as an ancilla or […]

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  April 8, 2021

  ancient clothing, Art and Graphics, color, diversity, hyperallergic, Uncategorized, women

  Nandini Pandey