House and Society in the Ancient Greek WorldThis book considers traditional assumptions about the nature of social relationships in Greek households during the Classical and Hellenistic periods, which draws on archaeological evidence from individual houses rather than textual sources. The focus of the study is the domestic organisation of households, particularly the relationships between men and women within the households, between household members and outsiders, and with the wider social structures of the polis or city state, and how these changed with time. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Domestic space and ancient Greek society | 4 |
Examining the oikos | 10 |
Approaches to the material record | 21 |
some basic assumptions | 29 |
From pots to people towards a framework for interpreting the archaeological material | 34 |
Approaching ancient Greek perceptions of domestic space | 36 |
Searching for individuals in the archaeological record | 39 |
an overview | 123 |
Regional patterns in domestic organisation Greek houses from Sicily and southern Italy | 127 |
Houses of fifthcentury date | 129 |
Houses of fourthcentury date | 135 |
Houses of thirdcentury date | 144 |
Rural housing in the hinterland of western Greek settlements | 151 |
an overview | 152 |
House and society in the ancient Greek world | 154 |
towards an analytical framework | 50 |
The city of Olynthos a detailed casestudy in domestic organisation | 53 |
archaeological considerations | 57 |
Investigating the organisation of individual houses | 61 |
Comparing different households | 74 |
house and society in fourthcentury Olynthos | 79 |
Olynthos in context houses in northern central and southern Greece and the Aegean islands | 80 |
Houses of the later fifth to midfourth centuries | 81 |
Houses of the later fourth to earlier third century | 114 |
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