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Domestic space in classical antiquity /

"Housing is shaped by culturally-specific expectations about the kinds of architecture and furnishings that are appropriate; about how and where different activities should be carried out; and by and with whom. It is those expectations, and the wider social and cultural systems of which they ar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nevett, Lisa C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Colección:Key themes in ancient history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Domestic space and social organisation
  • House-form and social complexity : the transformation of early Iron Age Greece
  • A space for "hurling the furniture" : the architecture and the development of Greek domestic symposia
  • Housing and cultural identity : Delos, between Greece and Rome
  • Seeing the domus behind the dominus in Roman Pompeii : artefact distributions as evidence for the whole household
  • Housing as symbol : elite self-preservation in North Africa under Roman rule
  • Epilogue: Domestic space and social organisation in classical antiquity
  • Glossary
  • Period names and dates referred to in this book.