author
Ethel Beatrice Abrahams
1880–1956
A careful early-20th-century scholar of classical costume, remembered for a detailed study of how clothing changed across the long history of ancient Greece. Her best-known work grew out of a University of London master's thesis and remains of interest to readers of classics, dress history, and archaeology.
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Greek dress : a study of the costumes worn in ancient Greece, from pre-Hellenic times to the Hellenistic age
by Ethel Beatrice Abrahams
About the author
Ethel Beatrice Abrahams was a writer and researcher best known for Greek Dress: A Study of the Costumes Worn in Ancient Greece, from Pre-Hellenic Times to the Hellenistic Age, published in 1908. In the book's preface, she explains that most of it began as a thesis accepted for the degree of Master of Arts at the University of London.
Her work set out to trace Greek clothing over a long span of time, from the pre-Hellenic world through the Hellenistic age. Rather than treating dress as a small detail, she approached it as a way of understanding everyday life, art, and social customs in the ancient world.
Confirmed biographical details about her life beyond this published work are limited in the sources found here. She is also listed in library and public-domain catalogs under her full name, and in some records as Ethel B. Abrahams.