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  • 7 - Greek Housing into the Hellenistic Period

  • Lisa C. Nevett, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Book:
    Ancient Greek Housing
    Published online:
    28 April 2023
    Print publication:
    25 May 2023, pp 217-256

  • Summary

    Chapter 7 shows how, during the Hellenistic period elite households adopted elements of the architectural vocabulary of the largest fourth-century houses, seeking to align themselves with their peers in other settlements. They thus formed a political, social and economic status group that crossed administrative and cultural boundaries, to reach across much of the Mediterranean and even beyond. At the same time these elites also differentiated themselves from the other members of their own communities who did not (and perhaps in most cases could not) build such houses. Among these households, too, there were changes in the dominant house-forms. The courtyard was often reduced in size and seems to have been less important than in earlier times, either as a location for domestic tasks, or as a communication route for moving around the house – a role which sometimes came to be played instead by an interior space. There is significant diversity across the Mediterranean, however.

  • 7 - Sicily, 478-431 b.c.

    • By D. Asheri, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Edited by David M. Lewis, John Boardman, J. K. Davies, M. Ostwald
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Ancient History
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    26 March 1992, pp 147-170

  • Summary

    The Concert of Greek Sicily was successfully orchestrated by Hiero until his major partner Theron died in 472. The fall of the Emmenids marked not only a radical constitutional change in the city state of Acragas, but also the dissolution of the entire Acragantine epicracy. The end of tyranny at Syracuse precipitated the immediate dissolution of the Deinomenid epicracy in eastern Sicily. The events of 459/8 can plausibly be viewed as the second phase in the growth of the Sicel movement as well as of Ducetius' personal leadership. The Sicel movement's most enduring result was the furtherance of Sicel assimilation into the cultural Siciliote koine of the late fifth century BC. The three decades following the fall of the tyrannies were crucial to Syracuse's constitutional and socio-economic development and its rise to the rank of a major hegemonic power in the West.