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Roman Villas: A Study in Social Structure

Roman Villas: A Study in Social Structure

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Ancient RomeGeneral ArchitectureTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 0415620112
ISBN13: 9780415620116
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 7 2011
Pages: 378
Weight: 1.58
Height: 0.85 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

Roman Villas explores the social structures of the Roman world by analysing the plans of buildings of all sizes from slightly Romanized farms to palaces. The ways in which the rooms are grouped together; how they intercommunicate; and the ways in which individual rooms and the house are approached, reveal various social patterns, which question traditional ideas about the Roman family and household. J. T. Smith argues that virtually all houses were occupied by groups of varying composition, challenging the received wisdom that they were single family houses whose size reflected only the owner's wealth and number of servants.

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