Ancient Roman Homes

Author : Alexander G. McKay
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998-05-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0801859042

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Houses, Villas, and Palaces in the Roman World by Alexander G. McKay Pdf

In a fascinating study of ancient Roman architecture, classics scholar Alexander McKay examines simple houses, mansions, estates and palatial buildings, interior furnishings, and gardens--revealing that Roman civilization was astonishingly similar to our own. He also discusses the conditions of life in the Roman provinces. 153 illustrations.

Author : Brian Williams
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1403405190

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Ancient Roman Homes by Brian Williams Pdf

Discusses the homes of the ancient Romans, including who lived in them, what they looked like, and how historians discovered this information.

Author : Hannah Platts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350114326

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Multisensory Living in Ancient Rome by Hannah Platts Pdf

Classicists have long wondered what everyday life was like in ancient Greece and Rome. How, for example, did the slaves, visitors, inhabitants or owners experience the same home differently? And how did owners manipulate the spaces of their homes to demonstrate control or social hierarchy? To answer these questions, Hannah Platts draws on a diverse range of evidence and an innovative amalgamation of methodological approaches to explore multisensory experience – auditory, olfactory, tactile, gustatory and visual – in domestic environments in Rome, Pompeii and Herculaneum for the first time, from the first century BCE to the second century CE. Moving between social registers and locations, from non-elite urban dwellings to lavish country villas, each chapter takes the reader through a different type of room and offers insights into the reasons, emotions and cultural factors behind perception, recording and control of bodily senses in the home, as well as their sociological implications. Multisensory Living in Ancient Rome will appeal to all students and researchers interested in Roman daily life and domestic architecture.

Author : Paul Harrison
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1615323058

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Ancient Roman Homes by Paul Harrison Pdf

Explore the ancient Roman style of home design.

Author : Annalisa Marzano,Guy P. R. Métraux
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781316730614

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The Roman Villa in the Mediterranean Basin by Annalisa Marzano,Guy P. R. Métraux Pdf

This volume offers a comprehensive survey of Roman villas in Italy and the Mediterranean provinces of the Roman Empire, from their origins to the collapse of the Empire. The architecture of villas could be humble or grand, and sometimes luxurious. Villas were most often farms where wine, olive oil, cereals, and manufactured goods, among other products, were produced. They were also venues for hospitality, conversation, and thinking on pagan, and ultimately Christian, themes. Villas spread as the Empire grew. Like towns and cities, they became the means of power and assimilation, just as infrastructure, such as aqueducts and bridges, was transforming the Mediterranean into a Roman sea. The distinctive Roman/Italian villa type was transferred to the provinces, resulting in Mediterranean-wide culture of rural dwelling and work that further unified the Empire.

Author : Brian Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422392589

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Ancient Roman Homes by Brian Williams Pdf

What did ancient Roman homes look like? Who lived in a typical ancient Roman home? How were their homes different from the ones we live in now? How do we know what ancient Roman homes were like? This book answers these questions & more. Find out what we know about ancient Roman houses & towns &, looking at historical evidence, find out how & why we know it. A book in the ¿People in the Past¿ series which explores how people in the past lived, & what their social, economic, political, & cultural life was like. Full-color illustrations. Juvenile audiences.

Author : Simon P. Ellis
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002-12-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39076002606312

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Roman Housing by Simon P. Ellis Pdf

"Roman Housing," copiously illustrated and provided with a glossary and site index, is the first book for over 20 years to examine housing throughout the Roman world. This breadth of scale enables the author to set local developments within the overall context of social change in the empire, making the book of value to all with an interest in the culture and history of Rome.

Author : Alexandra Croom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Home economics
ISBN : 0752465171

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Running the Roman Home by Alexandra Croom Pdf

Books on the everyday life of the Romans usually describe getting dressed, going to the baths or to the amphitheatre, and attending evening dinner parties (often called 'banquets'), but rarely seem to discuss the more typical activities that make up most people's experience of daily life, such as doing the washing up and taking out the rubbish! "Running the Roman Home" explores the real 'every-day' life of the Romans and the effort required to run a Roman household. It is divided into sections on how the Romans collected water and fuel, milled flour, produced thread, cleaned the house, illuminated it, did the washing up, cleaned their clothes, got rid of waste water and sewage, and threw out their rubbish. Using evidence from literary, archaeological and artistic sources, the author explores the workings of the Roman household and makes comparisons with historical and modern parallels from communities using the same methods.

Author : John R. Clarke
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520084292

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The Houses of Roman Italy, 100 B.C.–A.D. 250 by John R. Clarke Pdf

"Extensively documented with well-chosen, good quality photographs, Clarke's book effectively surveys these representative examples from the Late Republic to the Late Empire, illustrating the shift in the agendas of decoration as well as in the patterns of the lives played out behind closed doors within these highly charged domestic interiors."—Richard Brilliant, author of Visual Narratives: Storytelling in Etruscan & Roman Art "An enlightening and engaging walk through Roman cultural history. . . .This book will be essential to anyone interested in the classical past, in artistic ensembles, or in the experience of architecture."—Diane Favro, University of California, Los Angeles "Real experts in Roman painting are few. This book should be very welcome to Roman art historians and social historians wanting to present this material to their students."—Eleanor Winsor Leach, author of The Rhetoric of Space

Author : Zahra Newby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107072244

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Greek Myths in Roman Art and Culture by Zahra Newby Pdf

A new reading of the portrayal of Greek myths in Roman art, revealing important shifts in Roman values and identities.

Author : Kaius Tuori,Laura Nissin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Architecture domestique
ISBN : 0991373065

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Public and Private in the Roman House and Society by Kaius Tuori,Laura Nissin Pdf

Author : Alfred Frazer
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0924171596

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The Roman Villa by Alfred Frazer Pdf

The J. Paul Getty Trust presents an architectural drawing of a Roman villa as it appeared during the time of the Roman Emperor Trajan (53-117), who ruled from 98-117. The J. Paul Getty Trust provides the drawing as part of ArtsEdNet.

Author : Paul Erdkamp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521896290

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The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome by Paul Erdkamp Pdf

Rome was the largest city in the ancient world. As the capital of the Roman Empire, it was clearly an exceptional city in terms of size, diversity and complexity. While the Colosseum, imperial palaces and Pantheon are among its most famous features, this volume explores Rome primarily as a city in which many thousands of men and women were born, lived and died. The thirty-one chapters by leading historians, classicists and archaeologists discuss issues ranging from the monuments and the games to the food and water supply, from policing and riots to domestic housing, from death and disease to pagan cults and the impact of Christianity. Richly illustrated, the volume introduces groundbreaking new research against the background of current debates and is designed as a readable survey accessible in particular to undergraduates and non-specialists.

Author : Shelley Hales
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0521735092

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The Roman House and Social Identity by Shelley Hales Pdf

This book examines house types from Britain to Syria to disclose how people imagined and articulated their place in the Roman world. Shelly Hales considers the nature and role of domestic decoration and its part in promoting social identities. From the Egyptian themes of imperial residences in Italy, to the viticultural designs found in the rock-cut homes in Petra, this decoration consistently appeals to fantasies beyond the immediate realities of their inhabitants. Employing a wide range of approaches to the study of the house and acculturation in the Roman Empire, Hales' book is the first synthesis of Roman domestic architecture.

Author : Georgia Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0521770084

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Roman House--Renaissance Palaces by Georgia Clarke Pdf

Georgia Clarke examines the fifteenth-century patrons' fascination with ancient texts.