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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779942803321

Autore

Smith J. T (John Thomas), <1922->

Titolo

Roman villas : a study in social structure / / J.T. Smith ; drawings by A.T. Adams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1997

ISBN

1-134-70535-2

0-7478-0600-4

1-280-33476-2

0-203-00405-1

0-203-27065-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (xxxiii, 378 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

722.7

728/.09376

937

Soggetti

Architecture, Domestic - Rome

Architecture, Roman - Europe

Architecture and society - Rome

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 330-339) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS

Sommario/riassunto

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 t