Wedding Hairstyles

particularly favoured the nodus style, both continuing to use it well into the Imperial Period. Other styles in the Julio-Claudian era were designed to be simple, with hair parted in two and tied in a bun at the back. This was perhaps done in order to juxtapose Roman modesty against Cleopatra and her flamboyance.

Flavian and Antonine hairstyles

Flavian and Antonine hairstyles are perhaps the most famous, and extravagant, of Imperial Rome’s styles. The styles were lofty, deeply drilled with curls and braids. The high arching crowns on the front were made using fillets of wool and toupets, and could be attached to the back of the head as well as the front. Typically, as in the case of the famous Fonseca Bust (pictured), the hair was combed into two parts; the front section was combed forwards and build with curls, while the back was plaited and coiled into an elaborate bun.

The later Antonine Period saw curls at the front of the head bought to a lower level than the Flavian Period. The braids coiled at the back of the head are bought further forward, instead often resting on the top of the head. Another style of the Antonine period saw the hair separated into rivets and tied at the back

Severan dynasty

Julia Domna, wife of Septimus Severus had a particularly notable hairstyle. She wore a heavy, globeular wig with simple finger-sized waves with a simple center parting. Julia Domna was from Syria, and it has been suggested that her style was indicitive of her foreign origins. Women from the East were not known to commonly wear wigs, preferring to create elaborate hairstyles from their own hair instead. In fact, foreign women often wore their hair differently to Rome, and women from Palmyra typically wore their hair waved in a simple center-parting, accompanied by diadems and turbans according to local customs. Julia Domna, despite being from the East, adopted a wig to project a familiar Roman guise and particularly in order to imitate her predecessor, Faustina the Younger. As time progressed, Severan hairstyles switched from the finger-waved center parting style, so one with more curls and ringlets at the front and back of the head, often accompanied by a wig.

See also

Clothing in ancient Greece

Clothing in ancient Rome

Women in Ancient Rome

Stola

References

^ Tertullian., De Culti Feminarum,2:7

^ Kampman (1981), 149-52

^ Bartman (2001), 6

^ Carcopino (1973), 167

^ Bartman (2001), 4

^ Seneca the Elder., Controversiae 2.7.6

^ Olson (2008), 33

^ Fantham (2008), 166-7; Olsen (2008), 33-6 both offer discussion on this

^ Olson (2008), 36

^ Suetonius., Life of Otho, 12 ; Morgan (1997), 214

^ Juvenal., Satire Book 6, 58-9

^ Ovid, Amores, 1:14:45-6; Bartman (2001), 14

^ Bartman (2001), 14

^ Olson (2008), 71; Bartman (2001), 10

^ Olson (2008), 74

^ Bust of Matidia, London, The British Museum 1805.7- 3.96; Bartman (2001), 10

^ a b Kleiner and Matheson (1996), 174

^ Fittschen and Zanker (1983), 105

^ Bartman (2001), 19

^ Tertullian, De Culti Feminarum, 2:6

^ Bartman (2001), 12; Allason-Jones (1989), 133-7

^ Pliny the Elder., Natural History, 32:23

^ Pliny the Elder., Natural History, 28:51

^ Tertullian, De Culti Feminarum, 2:6:1

^ Ovid., Ars Amatoria, 3:158-64

^ Pliny the Elder., Natural History, 28:46

^ Olson (2008), 73

^ Kleiner and Matheson (1996), 162; Olson (2008), 75-6

^ a b Olson (2008), 39

^ Examples of the Nodus style

^ Further examples of the Nodus and

^ Kleiner and Matheson (1996), 37

^ Bartman (2001), 18

^ Examples of the Antonine styles and riveted

^ Bartman (2001), 17

^ Bartman (2001), 17-8

^ Example of Severan style, finger waves underneath Palla

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