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. Roman
Villas provides a meticulously documented and scholarly examination
of the relationship between the living quarters of the Roman and
their social and economic development which introduces a new area
in Roman studies and a corpus of material for further analysis. The
inclusion of almost 500 ground plans, drawn to a uniform scale,
allows the reader to compare the similarities and differences
between house structure as well as effectively illustrating the
arguments.
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