Ancient Greek houses and households : chronological, regional, and social diversity / edited by Bradley A. Ault and Lisa C. Nevett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ault, Bradley A. (Bradley Allen), 1961-

Nevett, Lisa C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dwellings--Greece--History--To 1500.

Dwellings.

Housing--Greece--History--To 1500.

Housing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 189 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Seeking to expand both the geographical range and the diversity of sites considered in the study of ancient Greek housing, Ancient Greek Houses and Households takes readers beyond well-established studies of the ideal classical house and now-famous structures of Athens and Olynthos.Bradley A. Ault and Lisa C. Nevett have brought together an international team of scholars who draw upon recent approaches to the study of households developed in the fields of classical archaeology, ancient history, and anthropology. The essays cover a broad range of chronological, geographical, and social contexts and address such topics as the structure and variety of households in ancient Greece, facets of domestic industry, regional diversity in domestic organization, and status distinctions as manifested within households.Ancient Greek Houses and Households views both Greek houses and the archeological debris found within them as a means of investigating the basic unit of Greek society: the household. Through this approach, the essays successfully point the way toward a real integration between material and textual data, between archeology and history.Contributors include William Aylward (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Nicholas Cahill (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Manuel Fiedler (Freie Universität, Berlin), Franziska Lang (Humboldt Universität, Berlin), Monike Trümper (Universität Heidelberg), and Barbara Tsakirgis (Vanderbilt University, Nashville).

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Chapter 1. Introduction / Nevett, Lisa C.

Chapter 2. Structural Change in Archaic Greek Housing / Lang, Franziska

Chapter 3. Security, Synoikismos, and Koinon as Determinants for Troad Housing in Classical and Hellenistic Times / Aylward, William

Chapter 4. Household Industry in Greece and Anatolia / Cahill, Nicholas

Chapter 5. Living and Working Around the Athenian Agora: A Preliminary Case Study of Three Houses / Tsakirgis, Barbara

Chapter 6. Between Urban and Rural: House-Form and Social Relations in Attic Villages and Deme Centers / Nevett, Lisa C.

Chapter 7. Houses at Leukas in Acarnania: A Case Study in Ancient Household Organization / Fiedler, Manuel

Chapter 8. Modest Housing in Late Hellenistic Delos / Trümper, Monika

Chapter 9. Housing the Poor and the Homeless in Ancient Greece / Ault, Bradley A.

Chapter 10 Summing Up: Whither the Archaeology of the Greek Household? / Ault, Bradley A. / Nevett, Lisa C.

Glossary

Contributors

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613212221

9781283212229

1283212226

9780812204438

0812204433

OCLC:

759158175