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 of time, spanning Early Iron Age Greece through to Late Antiquity. Geographical coverage embraces not just Greece and Italy but takes into account the wider Mediterranean basin. Presentations of housing from a range of sites place them into their historical and archaeological contexts and include not only well-known examples but also those from less conspicuous locations.The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Classical Houses and Households is for undergraduates to graduate students, professionals as well as researchers in Archaeology and Classics interested in the social life of the Greek and Roman world and beyond.
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).
List of contributors; Introduction; Section I – Greek Housing – Chapter 1 Archaic Housing; Chapter 2 Geometric Zagora on Andros; Chapter 3 A fair wind blows. Greeks overseas in Magna Graecia and Sicily; Chapter 4 Olynthos; Chapter 5 Construction; Chapter 6 Halieis; Chapter 7 The Domestic Architecture of Eretria in Classical-Hellenistic Times; Chapter 8 Thrace: Houses at Ancient Stryme; Chapter 9 Domestic Architecture in Late Hellenistic Delos; Chapter 10 Punic Housing; Chapter 11 The Houses of Pella; Chapter 12 Gender in the Greco-Roman Household; Chapter 13 Domestic Cult (Greco-Roman); Chapter 14 Domestic Furniture; Section II – Roman Housing – Chapter 15 Etruscan houses and households of the Orientalizing and Archaic periods; Chapter 16 Etruscan Tombs: Houses for the Dead; Chapter 17 Roman housing from Republic to Empire; Chapter 18 The Palatine Hill; Chapter 19 Residential Buildings in Ostia during the Roman Age; Chapter 20 The Suburbium; Chapter 21 The Auditorium Villa: a Unique and Exceptional History along the Tiber; Chapter 22 An Approach to Housing in Corduba-Colonia Patricia (Cordoba, Spain); Chapter 23 Housing and Households at Dura-Europos; Chapter 24 Decoration; Section III – Late Antique Housing – Chapter 25 The Residential Architecture of Late Antique Rome; Chapter 26 The Evolution of the Stately Late Antique domus: The Archaeological Evidence in the Provincial Capitals; Chapter 27 Building Houses in Late Roman Cities. An Overview from Italy; Index.