Housing in the Ancient Mediterranean World
Material and Textual Approaches
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- J. A. Baird, Birkbeck College, University of London
- April Pudsey, Manchester Metropolitan University
- Date Published: December 2023
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108949972
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One of the greatest benefits of studying the ancient Greek and Roman past is the ability to utilise different forms of evidence, in particular both written and archaeological sources. The contributors to this volume employ this evidence to examine ancient housing, and what might be learned of identities, families, and societies, but they also use it as a methodological locus from which to interrogate the complex relationship between different types of sources. Chapters range from the recreation of the house as it was conceived in Homeric poetry, to the decipherment of a painted Greek lekythos to build up a picture of household activities, to the conjuring of the sensorial experience of a house in Pompeii. Together, they present a rich tapestry which demonstrates what can be gained for our understanding of ancient housing from examining the interplay between the words of ancient texts and the walls of archaeological evidence.
Read more- Employs textual and archaeological sources in tandem to explore ancient houses and households
- Draws on a broad range of archaeological sites and types of textual evidence
- Adopts a range of methodological approaches and critiques these in a historiographical context
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'The volume will be mostly appreciated by researchers seeking to better understand the methodological and textual orientations towards housing in Classical archaeology.' Michael Eisenberg, Scripta Classica Israelica
See more reviews'Scholars of domestic architecture, family, religion, and everyday life will find important insights … especially related to … methodological challenges in domestic archaeology.' Mattias Brand, Bibliotheca Orientalis
'… the contributions to the volume all show in different ways how fruitful it can be to move beyond debates about terminology and use the full potential of both written and material evidence to illuminate the rich diversity of houses and households across the ancient world.' Ruth Westgate, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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- Date Published: December 2023
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108949972
- length: 517 pages
- dimensions: 240 x 170 x 25 mm
- weight: 0.985kg
- contains: 54 b/w illus. 16 colour illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction: Between Words and Walls: Material and Textual Approaches to Housing in the Graeco-Roman World Richard Alston, J. A. Baird, and April Pudsey
1. Kinship 'In the Halls': Poetry and the Archaeology of Early Greek Housing Emily Varto
2. Domesticating the Ancient House: The Archaeology of a False Analogy Caspar Meyer
3. Mind the Gap: Re-uniting Words and Walls in the study of the Classical Greek House Janett Morgan
4. A Family Affair: The Household use of Attic lekythoi Katerina Volioti
5. Textiles in Alkestis' Thalamos Amy C. Smith
6. Architectural Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Architecture: Athens and Macedon in the mid-fourth century BCE Lisa Nevett
7. The Reconstruction of an Agricultural Landscape: Seeking the Farmstead Maeve McHugh
8. Mudbricks and Papyri from the Desert Sand: Housing in the Ptolemaic and Roman Fayum Inge Uytterhoeven
9. Housing and Community: Structures in Houses and Kinship in Roman Tebtynis April Pudsey
10. The Elusive Vestibulum Simon Speksnijder
11. Living in the Liminal: Lares Compitales Shrines, Freedmen and Identity in Delos Crysta Kaczmarek
12. Experiencing Sense, Place and Space in the Roman Villa Hannah Platts
13. Houses and Time: Material Memory at Dura-Europos J. A. Baird
14. Spaces of Desire: Houses, Households, and Social Reproduction in the Roman World Richard Alston
15. A Response: 'Using the Material and Written Sources' Revisited Penelope Allison.
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