Housing in the Ancient Mediterranean World (eBook, PDF)

Material and Textual Approaches
Redaktion: Baird, J. A.

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Produktbeschreibung

One of the greatest benefits of studying the ancient Greek and Roman past is the ability to utilise different forms of evidence, in particular both written and archaeological sources. The contributors to this volume employ this evidence to examine ancient housing, and what might be learned of identities, families, and societies, but they also use it as a methodological locus from which to interrogate the complex relationship between different types of sources. Chapters range from the recreation of the house as it was conceived in Homeric poetry, to the decipherment of a painted Greek lekythos to build up a picture of household activities, to the conjuring of the sensorial experience of a house in Pompeii. Together, they present a rich tapestry which demonstrates what can be gained for our understanding of ancient housing from examining the interplay between the words of ancient texts and the walls of archaeological evidence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108960663
• Artikelnr.: 66183279

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Between Words and Walls: Material and Textual Approaches to
Housing in the Graeco-Roman World Richard Alston, J. A. Baird, and April
Pudsey; 1. Kinship 'In the Halls': Poetry and the Archaeology of Early
Greek Housing Emily Varto; 2. Domesticating the Ancient House: The
Archaeology of a False Analogy Caspar Meyer; 3. Mind the Gap: Re-uniting
Words and Walls in the study of the Classical Greek House Janett Morgan; 4.
A Family Affair: The Household use of Attic lekythoi Katerina Volioti; 5.
Textiles in Alkestis' Thalamos Amy C. Smith; 6. Architectural Rhetoric and
the Rhetoric of Architecture: Athens and Macedon in the mid-fourth century
BCE Lisa Nevett; 7. The Reconstruction of an Agricultural Landscape:
Seeking the Farmstead Maeve McHugh; 8. Mudbricks and Papyri from the Desert
Sand: Housing in the Ptolemaic and Roman Fayum Inge Uytterhoeven; 9.
Housing and Community: Structures in Houses and Kinship in Roman Tebtynis
April Pudsey; 10. The Elusive Vestibulum Simon Speksnijder; 11. Living in
the Liminal: Lares Compitales Shrines, Freedmen and Identity in Delos
Crysta Kaczmarek; 12. Experiencing Sense, Place and Space in the Roman
Villa Hannah Platts; 13. Houses and Time: Material Memory at Dura-Europos
J. A. Baird; 14. Spaces of Desire: Houses, Households, and Social
Reproduction in the Roman World Richard Alston; 15. A Response: 'Using the
Material and Written Sources' Revisited Penelope Allison.