Ancient Greek housing
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Ancient Greek housing
Cambridge University Press, 2023
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
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  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-321) and index
Contents of Works
- Introducing ancient Greek housing
- Greek domestic architecture ca. 950-500 BCE : re-inventing the house
- Classical Athens and Attica : the anatomy of housing in a city and its territory
- Housing in mainland Greece during the classical period : towards a shared ideal?
- Housing Greek households in the eastern, western and southern Mediterranean and northern Black Sea littoral : the boundaries of an ideal?
- Housing, power and wealth in Greek communities during the late classical and early Hellenistic periods : stretching the ideal?
- Greek housing into the Hellenistic period : the transformation of an ideal?
- Epilogue: the single-entrance, courtyard house and beyond
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
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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