Roman Villas; A Study in Social Structure
Editorial Reviews
Review
...thought-provoking...a great deal of information contained in this volume.
-Near East Archaeological Society Bulletin
This is a book for specialists, especially architectural historians and archaeologists who have encountered the perplexing variety of Roman domestic architecture in the north.
-John R. Clarke, AJA
Book Description
Roman Villas explores the social structures of the Roman world by analyzing the plans of buildings, from slightly Romanized farms to palaces.
The ways in which the rooms are grouped together; how they intercommunicate; and the ways in which individual rooms and the house are approached, reveal various social patterns, which question traditional ideas about the Roman family and household. Roman Villas provides a meticulously documented and scholarly examination of the relationship between the living quarters of the Romans and their social and economic development which introduces a new area in Roman studies and a corpus of material for further analysis. The inclusion of almost 500 ground plans, drawn to a uniform scale, compares the similarities and differences between house structures as well as effectively illustrates the arguments.
Roman Villas,J. T. Smith,Routledge,0415167191,Ancient - Rome,Architecture,Architecture and society,Architecture, Domestic,Architecture, Roman,Domestic,Europe,History - General,History - General History,Residential Buildings Architecture,Roman Architecture,Rome,Ancient Rome,Classical Greek & Roman archaeology,European history: BCE to c 500 CE,History / Ancient / General,Social groups & communities,Social issues
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