Color-terms in Social and Cultural Context in Ancient Rome

Copywrite Page (page 4)
    Table of Contents (page 5)
    Acknowledgments (page 7)
    Note on Texts, Translations, and Abbreviations (page 9)
    Introduction (page 11)
        Different Hues, Different Views (page 11)
        Modern Approaches to Roman Colors (page 13)
        A Thematic Approach to the Subject (page 17)
    Chapter One: Aulus Gellius' Colorful Digression (page 19)
        The Color Debate: Latin Color Terms (page 20)
        Greek Color-Terms (page 28)
        Fronto and the Roman Artistic Background (page 29)
        Favorinus and Physiognomy (page 33)
        Summary (page 34)
    Chapter Two: Ancient Dyes: Color Me Beautiful (page 35)
        Purple Dyers (page 37)
        Red Dyers (page 41)
        Other Dyers (page 42)
        Vitruvian Colors (page 43)
        Summary (page 47)
    Chapter Three: Colored Clothing: You Are What You Wear (page 49)
        Purple Colored Clothing (page 50)
        Red Colored Clothing (page 62)
        Blue and Green Colored Clothing (page 65)
        Yellow Colored Clothing (page 67)
        White, Gray, Black, and Brown (page 72)
        Pullus (page 75)
        Summary (page 78)
    Chapter Four: Clothes Make the Man: Class and Color-Terms (page 81)
        Trimalchio the Freedman (page 81)
        The Freedman's Wife (page 86)
        The Freedman's Feast (page 89)
        Freedmen in Poetry (page 90)
        Summary (page 93)
    Chapter Five: Color Wars: Roman Chariot Teams (page 95)
        The Setting (page 95)
        The Teams (page 97)
        The Greens (page 100)
        The Blues (page 104)
        The Reds, Whites, and Others (page 105)
        Epilogue (page 106)
    Chapter Six: Color Physiognomy: You Are What You Look Like (page 109)
        Descriptions of Emperors (page 110)
        Descriptions of Ordinary Men (page 119)
        Descriptions of Women (page 128)
        Descriptions of Non-Romans (page 135)
        Gauls, Germans, and Britons (page 136)
        Assyrians, Egyptians, Ethiopians, Etruscans, and Indians (page 140)
        Summary (page 143)
    Chapter Seven: The Multicolored World of the Romans (page 145)
        Versicolor (page 145)
        Decolor and Decolorare (page 151)
        Discolor (page 156)
        Bicolor (page 161)
        Multicolor (page 162)
        Omnicolor (page 164)
        Unicolor and Concolor (page 165)
        Summary (page 170)
    Conclusions: Did Color-Terms Have an Ancient History? (page 171)
    Bibliography (page 175)
    Index of Latin Color-Terms (page 185)
    Index of Classical Works Cited (page 189)
    General Index (page 197)