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"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"--
List of contents
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.
About the author
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).
Summary
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.
