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Housing Is Shaped By Culturally-specific Expectations About The Kinds Of Architecture And Furnishings That Are Appropriate; About How And Where Different Activities Should Be Carried Out; And By And With Whom. It Is Those Expectations, And The Wider Social And Cultural Systems Of Which They Are A Part, That Are Explored In This Volume. At The Same Time, The Book As A Whole Argues Two Larger Points: First, That While Houses, Households, And Families Have In Recent Years Become Increasingly Important As Objects Of Inquiry In Greek And Roman Contexts, Their Potential As Sources Of Information About Broader Social-historical Issues Has Yet To Be Fully Realised; And Second, That Greater Weight And Independence Should Be Given To Material Culture As A Source For Studying Ancient History. The Book Will Be Invaluable For Upper-level Undergraduates, Graduate Students, And Scholars--back Cover. Domestic Space And Social Organisation -- House-form And Social Complexity : The Transformation Of Early Iron Age Greece -- A Space For Hurling The Furniture : The Architecture And The Development Of Greek Domestic Symposia -- Housing And Cultural Identity : Delos, Between Greece And Rome -- Seeing Th

Author

Lisa C. Nevett

Publisher

University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations; Cambridge University Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781139775960

Subjects

History, Architecture, Folklore