''Trabea'' (plural ''trabeae'') is the name of various pieces of
Roman clothing. A distinct feature of all ''trabeae'' was their color – usually red or
purple. They were formed like a
toga and possibly in some cases like a
mantle
A mantle is a piece of clothing, a type of cloak. Several other meanings are derived from that.
Mantle may refer to:
*Mantle (clothing), a cloak-like garment worn mainly by women as fashionable outerwear
**Mantle (vesture), an Eastern Orthodox ve ...
and worn by more distinguished members of Roman society.
A garment known as the ''trabea triumphalis'' was commonly worn by
consuls in
Late Antiquity. When Emperor
Justinian II abolished the office of consul as a separate entity from the Emperor himself, the ''trabea triumphalis'' developed into the ''
loros'', which was the worn only by the imperial family and senior administrative officials. Although Emperor
Leo VI abolished the ancient title of consul altogether, the ''loros'' persisted until the
end of the empire as the formal, ceremonial
dress of the emperors.
See also
*
Clothing in ancient Rome
References
*Philip Smith: ''Toga''. In: William Smith (Hrsg.): ''A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities''. John Murray, London, 1875
online copyat
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*Liza Cleland, Glenys Davies, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones: ''Greek and Roman dress from A to Z''. Routledge 2007, , p. 197 ()
*J. C. Edmondson,
Alison Keith
Alison Keith is a classical scholar who is Professor of Classics and Women's Studies at the University of Toronto, where she has been a Fellow of Victoria University of Toronto since 1989. She is an expert on the relationships between gender and g ...
: ''Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture''. University of Toronto Press 2008, , S. 13, 27, 32, 42, 43, 217-237 ()
External links
Picture of a man dressed with tunica and trabeaat roman-empire.net
Roman-era clothing
Dresses
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