Book contents
- Ancient Greek Housing
- Ancient Greek Housing
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- 1 Introducing Ancient Greek Housing
- 2 Greek Domestic Architecture ca. 950–500 BCE
- 3 Classical Athens and Attica
- 4 Housing in Mainland Greece during the Classical Period
- 5 Housing Greek Households in the Eastern, Western and Southern Mediterranean and Northern Black Sea Littoral
- 6 Housing, Power and Wealth in Greek Communities during the Late Classical and Early Hellenistic Periods
- 7 Greek Housing into the Hellenistic Period
- Epilogue: The Single-Entrance, Courtyard House and Beyond
- Glossary
- Selection of Ancient Texts in Translation
- Bibliographic Essay
- References
- Index
5 - Housing Greek Households in the Eastern, Western and Southern Mediterranean and Northern Black Sea Littoral
The Boundaries of an Ideal?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 April 2023
- Ancient Greek Housing
- Ancient Greek Housing
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- 1 Introducing Ancient Greek Housing
- 2 Greek Domestic Architecture ca. 950–500 BCE
- 3 Classical Athens and Attica
- 4 Housing in Mainland Greece during the Classical Period
- 5 Housing Greek Households in the Eastern, Western and Southern Mediterranean and Northern Black Sea Littoral
- 6 Housing, Power and Wealth in Greek Communities during the Late Classical and Early Hellenistic Periods
- 7 Greek Housing into the Hellenistic Period
- Epilogue: The Single-Entrance, Courtyard House and Beyond
- Glossary
- Selection of Ancient Texts in Translation
- Bibliographic Essay
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 5 explores the extent to which the single-entrance, courtyard house is found in culturally Greek settlements lying beyond the modern-day Greek mainland and Aegean islands, in the southern (Crete and the North African coast), eastern (Asia Minor) and western Mediterranean (southern Italy) and on the northern Black Sea coast. Discussion focuses on the extent and nature of variation in house forms across time and space, and on what that variation might have to say about these different communities in social and cultural terms. Questions raised include: how the inhabitants seem to have been presenting themselves through the architecture, organisation and furnishings of their homes; and how similar or different their statements were from those being made by their counterparts in mainland Greece. Sites discussed include: Old Smyrna, Miletos, Neandria, Priene, Kolophon, Kavousi Kastro, Azoria, Trypetos, Lato, Euesperides, Megara Hybala, Monte San Mauro, HImera, Sicilian Naxos, Berezan and Olbia.
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- Ancient Greek Housing , pp. 148 - 185Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023