Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum
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Alleius Nigidius Maius
Antechamber
Apartment
Archetype
Aristocracy
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Building
Cabinetry
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City-state
Civil society
Contemporary society
Credential
Cultural capital
Cultural history
Designer
Dowry
Dwelling
Economy
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Etiquette
Extended family
Floriculture
Freedman
Herculaneum
House
House plan
Household
Housing
Infrastructure
Insula (building)
Interior design
Legatee
Literature
Lodging
Mattress
Occupancy
Osteria
Ostia (Rome)
Parlour
Pergamon
Periodical literature
Peristyle
Political economy
Pompeii
Portico
Preservationist
Promiscuity
Proportion (architecture)
Publication
Quartile
Residence
Residential area
Ruler
Show house
Social class
Social integration
Social position
Social status
Society
Studio apartment
Taberna
Tablinum
Tacitus
Tenement
Triclinium
Trimalchio
Ulpian
Vault (architecture)
Vestibule (architecture)
Vitruvius
Wallpaper
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- ISBN 9780691029092
- Weight: 624g
- Dimensions: 191 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jul 1996
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: 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."
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill is Professor of Classics at the University of Reading in England.
