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  • Introduction

  • Edited by J. A. Baird, Birkbeck College, University of London, April Pudsey, Manchester Metropolitan University
  • Book:
    Housing in the Ancient Mediterranean World
    Published online:
    08 July 2022
    Print publication:
    21 July 2022, pp 1-26

  • Summary

    This introduction probes the relationship between textual and material approaches to houses of the ancient Mediterranean. Drawing on the contributions to the volume, it traces some of the ways in which documentary and archaeological sources, and the relationships between these, have shaped our knowledge of the housing and households of the Graeco-Roman world.

Housing in the Ancient Mediterranean World
  • Material and Textual Approaches
  • Edited by J. A. Baird, April Pudsey
  • Published online:
    08 July 2022
    Print publication:
    21 July 2022
  • One of the greatest benefits of studying the ancient Greek and Roman past is the ability to utilise different forms of evidence, in particular both written and archaeological sources. The contributors to this volume employ this evidence to examine ancient housing, and what might be learned of identities, families, and societies, but they also use it as a methodological locus from which to interrogate the complex relationship between different types of sources. Chapters range from the recreation of the house as it was conceived in Homeric poetry, to the decipherment of a painted Greek lekythos to build up a picture of household activities, to the conjuring of the sensorial experience of a house in Pompeii. Together, they present a rich tapestry which demonstrates what can be gained for our understanding of ancient housing from examining the interplay between the words of ancient texts and the walls of archaeological evidence.