Ancient Greek Housing
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- Author: Lisa C. Nevett, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Date Published: July 2023
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- isbn: 9780521124638
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The temples and theatres of the ancient Greek world are widely known, but there is less familiarity with the houses in which people lived. In this book, Lisa Nevett provides an accessible introduction to the varied forms of housing found across the Greek world between c. 1000 and 200 BCE. Many houses adopted a courtyard structure which she sets within a broader chronological, geographical and socio-economic context. The book explores how housing shaped - and was shaped by – patterns of domestic life, at Athens and in other urban communities. It also points to a rapid change in the scale, elaboration and layout of the largest houses. This is associated with a shift away from expressing solidarity with peers in the local urban community towards advertising personal status and participation in a network of elite households which stretched across the Mediterranean. Instructors, students and general readers will welcome this stimulating volume.
Read more- Discusses a range of archaeological and textual evidence for ancient Greek housing and includes an extensive Bibliographic Essay
- Shows how patterns in the organisation of domestic space are linked with larger social and historical trends
- Offers a selective overview of housing between the tenth and third centuries BCE and from Asia Minor to Italy
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- Date Published: July 2023
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521124638
- length: 370 pages
- dimensions: 244 x 170 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.66kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
1. Introducing ancient Greek housing
2. Greek domestic architecture ca. 950–500 BCE: re-inventing the house
3. Classical Athens and Attica: the anatomy of housing in a city and its territory
4. Housing in mainland Greece during the classical period: towards a shared ideal?
5. Housing Greek households in the eastern, western and southern Mediterranean and northern Black Sea littoral: the boundaries of an ideal?
6. Housing, power and wealth in Greek communities during the late classical and early Hellenistic periods: stretching the ideal?
7. Greek housing into the Hellenistic period: the transformation of an ideal?
Epilogue: the single-entrance, courtyard house and beyond.
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