The Roman House and Social Identity
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 8 June 2009
- ISBN 9780521735094
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages308 pages
- Size 254x178x17 mm
- Weight 650 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Examines house types from Britain to Syria to understand how people imagined and articulated their place in the Roman world.
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Examines a diverse range of house types in an effort to understand how people imagined and articulated their place in the Roman world, from Britain to Syria. Shelly Hales considers the nature and role of domestic decoration and its role 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. Hales contends that fantasy served a key role in allowing individuals and communities to meet expectations and indulge aspirations, to confirm and to compete within the diverse empire. Employing a wide range of approaches to the study of the house and acculturation in the Roman Empire, her book serves as the first synthesis of Roman domestic architecture and offers new insights into the complexities and contradictions of being Roman.
'The author ... explores the way in which many such paintings were fantastical manipulations of nature, and were not so much pale imitations of reality, but actually surpassed reality.' JACT
Table of Contents:
Part I: 1. The ideal home; 2. The house and the construction of memory; 3. The imperial palace; Part II: 4. Finding a way into the Pompeian house; 5. The art of impression in the houses of Pompeii; Part III: 6. The houses of the western provinces; 7. The east Greek oikos.
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