02587nam 2200661Ia 450 991077994280332120230615202952.01-134-70535-20-7478-0600-41-280-33476-20-203-00405-10-203-27065-7(CKB)111056485532570(EBL)169241(OCoLC)51037055(SSID)ssj0000239331(PQKBManifestationID)11220788(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000239331(PQKBWorkID)10250149(PQKB)11681032(MiAaPQ)EBC169241(Au-PeEL)EBL169241(CaPaEBR)ebr10056068(CaONFJC)MIL33476(PPN)183066936(EXLCZ)9911105648553257019970124d1997 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRoman villas a study in social structure /J.T. Smith ; drawings by A.T. AdamsLondon ;New York :Routledge,1997.1 online resource (xxxiii, 378 pages) illustrationsDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-62011-2 0-415-16719-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 330-339) and indexes.BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTSRoman 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 tArchitecture, DomesticRomeArchitecture, RomanEuropeArchitecture and societyRomeArchitecture, DomesticArchitecture, RomanArchitecture and society722.7728/.09376937Smith J. T(John Thomas),1922-1547401MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779942803321Roman villas3803753UNINA