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Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum
Engelsk Paperback
Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum
Engelsk Paperback

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Few sources reveal the life of the ancient Romans as vividly as do the houses preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius. Wealthy Romans lavished resources on shaping their surroundings to impress their crowds of visitors. The fashions they set were taken up and imitated by ordinary citizens. In this illustrated book, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill explores the rich potential of the houses of Pompeii and Herculaneum to offer new insights into Roman social life. Exposing misconceptions derived from contemporary culture, he shows the close interconnection of spheres we take as discrete: public and private, family and outsiders, work and leisure.


Combining archaeological evidence with Roman texts and comparative material from other cultures, Wallace-Hadrill raises a range of new questions. How did the organization of space and the use of decoration help to structure social encounters between owner and visitor, man and woman, master and slave? What sort of "households" did the inhabitants of the Roman house form? How did the world of work relate to that of entertainment and leisure? How widely did the luxuries of the rich spread among the houses of craftsmen and shopkeepers? Through analysis of the remains of over two hundred houses, Wallace-Hadrill reveals the remarkably dynamic social environment of early imperial Italy, and the vital part that houses came to play in defining what it meant "to live as a Roman."

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9780691029092
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0691029091
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
28 jul 1996
Længde:
16mm
Bredde:
191mm
Højde:
254mm
Forlag:
Princeton University Press
Oplagsdato:
28 jul 1996
Forfatter(e):
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