Bras in Ancient Rome Erin Blakemore wrote in National Geographic History: Though its unclear when the first of the bras many precursors was invented, historians have found references to bra-like garments in ancient Greek works like Homers Iliad, which depicts the goddess Aphrodite removing a curiously embroidered girdle from her bosom, and Aristophanes Lysistrata, in which a woman withholding sex from her husband teases him by saying shes taking off her strophion, clumsily translated as breast-band. [Source Erin Blakemore, National Geographic History, October 4, 2023] Scholars are divided on whether Greek and Roman women wore bra-like garments for support, style, or both
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