Ancient Greek Housing - Lisa C. Nevett

Ancient Greek Housing

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Buch | Softcover
370 Seiten
2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-12463-8 (ISBN)
31,15 inkl. MwSt
Provides students of Classics, ancient history and archaeology with an accessible introduction to the archaeological evidence for housing and domestic life in the ancient Greek world. Numerous illustrations (line drawings and photographs), along with texts in translation, enable readers to engage closely with the topic.
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.

LISA C. NEVETT is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Michigan. Her books include House and Society in the Ancient Greek World (1999), Domestic Space in Classical Antiquity (2010), Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece (edited, 2017) and An Age of Experiment: Classical Archaeology Transformed (co-edited, 2018). Between 2014 and 2019 she co-directed the excavation of a Classical house at Olynthos (northern Greece).

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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Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 170 x 244 mm
Gewicht 660 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10 0-521-12463-8 / 0521124638
ISBN-13 978-0-521-12463-8 / 9780521124638
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