Housing in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Material and Textual Approaches

ISBN-13: 9781108845267 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

J. A. Baird; April Pudsey

Opis

Explores the possible dialogues between textual and archaeological sources in studying housing in the ancient Mediterranean world.

Recenzje

'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

Spis treści

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.