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A Cultural History of the Home in Antiquity (Hardcover)
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A Cultural History of the Home in Antiquity (Hardcover)
Series: The Cultural Histories Series
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'Home' is a powerful idea throughout antiquity, from Odysseus' epic
journey to recover his own home, nostalgically longed-for through
his long absence, to the implanting of Christianity in the domestic
sphere in late antiquity. We can recognise the idea even if there
is no word for it that quite corresponds to our own: the Greek
oikos and the Latin domus mean both house and family, the essential
components of home. To attempt a history of 'the home' in antiquity
means bringing together two separate, if closely related, fields of
study. On the one hand, study of the family, both in the legal
frameworks that define it as institution and the literary
representations of it in daily life; on the other, archaeological
study of the domestic setting, within which such relationships are
played out. Ranging across a period of over a millennium, this
collection looks at the home as a force of integration: of the
worlds of family and of the outsider in hospitality; of the worlds
of leisure and work; of the worlds of public and private life; of
the world of practical structures and furnishings and the world of
religion.
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