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2. Byzantine dress - Wikipedia

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   Special forms of dress for many classes of people on particular occasions are set down; at the name-day dinner for the Emperor or Empress various groups of high officials performed ceremonial "dances", one group wearing "a blue and white garment, with short sleeves, and gold bands, and rings on their ankles.

3. Clothing in ancient Rome - Wikipedia

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   Clothing in ancient Rome generally comprised a short-sleeved or sleeveless, knee-length tunic for men and boys, and a longer, usually sleeved tunic for women and girls. On formal occasions, adult male citizens could wear a woolen toga , draped over their tunic, and married citizen women wore a woolen mantle, known as a palla , over a stola , a ...

4. List of Roman and Byzantine empresses - Wikipedia

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   27 BC – AD 14), as wife of Augustus, was the first and longest-reigning empress. The term Roman empress usually refers to the consorts of the Roman emperors, the rulers of the Roman Empire. The duties, power and influence of empresses varied depending on the time period, contemporary politics and the personalities of their husband and themselves.

5. Theodora (wife of Justinian I) - Wikipedia

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   Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore (2010) is a historical novel by Stella Duffy that is about Theodora before she becomes empress. Stella Duffy's The Purple Shroud. (2012) is a historical novel about Theodora's years as empress. The Secret History (2013) is a historical novel by Stephanie Thornton about Theodora's life.

6. List of Holy Roman empresses - Wikipedia

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   The Holy Roman Empress or Empress of the Holy Roman Empire (Kaiserin des Heiligen Römischen Reiches) was the wife or widow of the Holy Roman Emperor. The elective dignity of Holy Roman emperor was restricted to males only, but some empresses, such as Theophanu and Maria Theresa , were de facto rulers of the Empire.

7. Toga - Wikipedia

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   Statue of the Emperor Tiberius showing a draped toga of the 1st century AD. The toga (/ ˈ t oʊ ɡ ə /, Classical Latin: [ˈt̪ɔ.ɡa]), a distinctive garment of Ancient Rome, was a roughly semicircular cloth, between 12 and 20 feet (3.7 and 6.1 m) in length, draped over the shoulders and around the body.