Ancient Greek Houses and Households: Chronological, Regional, and Social Diversity

by Bradley A. Ault, Lisa C. Nevett

Overview

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 Universityät, Berlin), Franziska Lang (Humboldt Universityät, Berlin), Monike Trümper (Universityät Heidelberg), and Barbara Tsakirgis (Vanderbilt University, Nashville).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780812238754
Publisher:	University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date:	07/20/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Bradley A. Ault is Associate Professor of Classics at the Universityat Buffalo, of the State University of New York. He is the author of The Houses: The Organization and Use of Domestic Space, Excavations at Ancient Halieis, Vol. 2. Lisa C. Nevett teaches in the Departments of Classical Studies and the History of Art at the University of Michigan. She is the author of House and Society in the Ancient Greek World and Domestic Space in Classical Antiquity.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface

1. Introduction
—Lisa C. Nevett
2. Structural Change in Archaic Greek Housing
—Franziska Lang
3. Security, Synoikismos, and Koinon as Determinants for Troad Housing in Classical and Hellenistic Times
—William Aylward
4. Household Industry in Anatolia and Greece
—Nicholas Cahill
5. Living and Working around the Athenian Agora: A Preliminary Case Study of Three Houses
—Barbara Tsakirgis
6. Between Urban and Rural: House-Form and Social Relations in Attic Villages and Deme Centers
—Lisa C. Nevett
7. Houses at Leukas in Acarnania. A Case Study in Ancient Household Organization
—Manuel Fiedler
8. Modest Housing in Late Hellenistic Delos
—Monika Trümper
9. Housing the Poor and Homeless in Ancient Greece
—Bradley A. Ault
10. Summing Up: Whither the Archaeology of the Greek Household?
—Bradley A. Ault and Lisa C. Nevett

Glossary
Index
Acknowledgments
Contributors

Editorial Reviews

"The volume represents a significant step towards a deeper and more nuanced understanding of Greek houses and households."

BMCR

"An excellent update on new finds in the domestic sphere in Greece and a cautious start to the development of new theories and methods for addressing the archaeological and textual evidence."

Classical Outlook

"The volume represents a significant step towards a deeper and more nuanced understanding of Greek houses and households."—BMCR

"An excellent update on new finds in the domestic sphere in Greece and a cautious start to the development of new theories and methods for addressing the archaeological and textual evidence."—Classical Outlook

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