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9 - Housing and the Household

from Part I - The Urban Fabric

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2021

By
Katherine B. Harrington
Edited by
Jenifer Neils  and
Dylan K. Rogers
Jenifer Neils
Affiliation:
American School of Classical Studies, Athens
Dylan K. Rogers
Affiliation:
University of Virginia
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Summary

Though millennia of building and rebuilding in the city center have affected archaeologists’ ability to recover domestic architecture and assemblages from the Archaic and Classical periods, the evidence which does survive provides a window into the daily lives of ordinary Athenians. Ancient Athenian houses hosted many activities, including family life, ritual practice, and craft production.

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household archaeologydomestic architecturegenderdomestic religiondaily life
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The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens , pp. 124 - 139
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

The most comprehensive account of Greek houses generally is Nevett 1999. On rescue excavations in Attika, see Parlama and Stampolidis 2000, Kaza-Papageorgiou 2016, and Eleftheratou 2019. For town planning, see Hoepfner and Schwandner 1986 and Shipley 2005. On gender in Greek houses, see Jameson 1990, Nevett 1994 and 1999, and Goldberg 1999. Tsakirgis 2005 is a good introduction to household industry near the Agora. For domestic religion, see Morgan 2007, and for saucer pyres specifically, see Rotroff 2013. On depictions of domestic life on Athenian vases, see Oakley 2020, 7–46. In the chora, see Nevett 2005 on ‘suburban’ houses and McHugh 2017 on farmsteads.

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Additional resources to accompany this chapter can be found at: www.cambridge.org/NeilsRogers

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