Lisa C. Nevett (Ann Arbor University of Michigan)

Domestic Space in Classical Antiquity

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the archaeological remains of housing in the Greek and Roman worlds, using written evidence and artistic representations to set them in a wider cultural framework. Together, this material is used to address wider questions about social structure, change through time and patterns of cultural interaction.

Produktdetails

• Key Themes in Ancient History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 328g
• ISBN-13: 9780521789455
• ISBN-10: 0521789451
• Artikelnr.: 29571096

Autorenporträt

Lisa C. Nevett is Associate Professor of Greek Archaeology at the University of Michigan. She has contributed articles and chapters to a wide variety of journals and edited volumes, and her own books include House and Society in the Ancient Greek World (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and Ancient Greek Houses and Households (edited with Bradley A. Ault, 2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Domestic space and social organisation
2. House form and social complexity: the transformation of early Iron Age Greece
3. A space for 'hurling the furniture'?: the andron and the development of Greek domestic symposia
4. Housing and cultural identity: Delos, between Greece and Rome
5. Seeing the domus behind the dominus in Roman Pompeii: artefact distributions as evidence for the whole household
6. Housing as symbol: elite self-presentation in North Africa under Roman rule
Epilogue. Domestic space and social organisation in classical antiquity
Glossary
Period names and dates referred to in this book.