Multisensory Living in Ancient Rome - Power and Space in Roman Houses

Classicists have long wondered what everyday life was like in ancient Greece and Rome. How, for example, did the slaves, visitors, inhabitants or owners experience the same home differently? And how did owners manipulate the spaces of their homes to demonstrate control or social hierarchy? To answer these questions, Hannah Platts draws on a diverse range of evidence and an innovative amalgamation of methodological approaches to explore multisensory experience - auditory, olfactory, tactile, gustatory and visual - in domestic environments in Rome, Pompeii and Herculaneum for the first time, from the first century BCE to the second century CE. Moving between social registers and locations, from non-elite urban dwellings to lavish country villas, each chapter takes the reader through a different type of room and offers insights into the reasons, emotions and cultural factors behind perception, recording and control of bodily senses in the home, as well as their sociological implications. will appeal to all students and researchers interested in Roman daily life and domestic architecture.>

Product details

• Authors: Hannah Platts, Hannah (University of Royal Holloway Platts, Platts Hannah
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781788312998
• ISBN: 978-1-78831-299-8
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / History / Ancient & Classical, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, History of Art, Ancient World, Ancient Rome, History of Architecture, Archaeology by period / region, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology