1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Classical Houses and Households

Edited By Bradley A Ault, Alessandro Sebastiani Copyright 2027
760 Pages 34 Color & 140 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Classical Houses and Households offers a comprehensive guide to the archaeology of Graeco-Roman houses and households. This handbook provides a chronologically expansive and geographically diverse survey of the material, both of housing itself, and of topics related to households as revealed through archaeological research. It covers a broad depth... Read more

List of contributors

 

Introduction

Bradley Ault and Alessandro Sebastiani

 

Section I – Greek Housing

 

Chapter 1 Archaic Housing

Franziska Lang

 

Chapter 2 Geometric Zagora on Andros

Kristin Mann    

 

Chapter 3 A fair wind blows. Greeks overseas in Magna Graecia and Sicily

Valentina Trotta

 

Chapter 4 Olynthos

Lisa Nevett

 

Chapter 5 Construction

Matthew Fitzjohn

 

Chapter 6 Halieis

Bradley Ault

 

Chapter 7 The Domestic Architecture of Eretria in Classical-Hellenistic Times

Karl Reber

 

Chapter 8 Thrace: Houses at Ancient Stryme

Nathan Arrington

 

Chapter 9 Domestic Architecture in Late Hellenistic Delos

Monika Trümper

 

Chapter 10 Punic Housing

Max Huemer

 

Chapter 11 The Houses of Pella

Nikos Akamatis

 

Chapter 12 Gender in the Greco-Roman Household

Alice Chapman and Elise Poppen

 

Chapter 13 Domestic Cult (Greco-Roman)

Caitlín Eilís Barrett

 

Chapter 14 Domestic Furniture

Dimitra Adrianou

 

Section II – Roman Housing

 

Chapter 15 Etruscan houses and households of the Orientalizing and Archaic periods

Marco Arizza

 

Chapter 16 Etruscan Tombs: Houses for the Dead

Alessandro Naso

 

Chapter 17 Roman housing from Republic to Empire

Fabrizio Pesando

 

Chapter 18 The Palatine Hill

Paolo Carafa

 

Chapter 19 Residential Buildings in Ostia during the Roman Age

Carlo Pavolini

 

Chapter 20 The Suburbium

Giulia de Palma

 

Chapter 21 The Auditorium Villa: a Unique and Exceptional History along the Tiber

Helga di Giuseppe

 

Chapter 22 An Approach to Housing in Corduba-Colonia Patricia (Cordoba, Spain)

Jose Antonio Garriguet and Ruiz Bueno

 

Chapter 23 Housing and Households at Dura-Europos

Jennifer Baird

 

Chapter 24 Decoration

John Clarke

 

Section III – Late Antique Housing

 

Chapter 25 The Residential Architecture of Late Antique Rome

Gregor Kallas

 

Chapter 26 The Evolution of the Stately Late Antique domus: The Archaeological Evidence in the Provincial Capitals

Miguel Alba Calzedo    

 

Chapter 27 Building Houses in Late Roman Cities. An Overview from Italy

Alessandro Sebastiani

 

Index

Biography

Bradley A. Ault is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). 

Alessandro Sebastiani is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Classics at the University at Buffalo (SUNY).