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Classicists have long wondered what everyday life was like in
ancient Greece and Rome. How, for example, did the slaves,
visitors, inhabitants or owners experience the same home
differently? And how did owners manipulate the spaces of their
homes to demonstrate control or social hierarchy? To answer these
questions, Hannah Platts draws on a diverse range of evidence and
an innovative amalgamation of methodological approaches to explore
multisensory experience - auditory, olfactory, tactile, gustatory
and visual - in domestic environments in Rome, Pompeii and
Herculaneum for the first time, from the first century BCE to the
second century CE. Moving between social registers and locations,
from non-elite urban dwellings to lavish country villas, each
chapter takes the reader through a different type of room and
offers insights into the reasons, emotions and cultural factors
behind perception, recording and control of bodily senses in the
home, as well as their sociological implications. Multisensory
Living in Ancient Rome will appeal to all students and researchers
interested in Roman daily life and domestic architecture.
Classicists have long wondered what everyday life was like in
ancient Greece and Rome. How, for example, did the slaves,
visitors, inhabitants or owners experience the same home
differently? And how did owners manipulate the spaces of their
homes to demonstrate control or social hierarchy? To answer these
questions, Hannah Platts draws on a diverse range of evidence and
an innovative amalgamation of methodological approaches to explore
multisensory experience – auditory, olfactory, tactile, gustatory
and visual – in domestic environments in Rome, Pompeii and
Herculaneum for the first time, from the first century BCE to the
second century CE. Moving between social registers and locations,
from non-elite urban dwellings to lavish country villas, each
chapter takes the reader through a different type of room and
offers insights into the reasons, emotions and cultural factors
behind perception, recording and control of bodily senses in the
home, as well as their sociological implications. Multisensory
Living in Ancient Rome will appeal to all students and researchers
interested in Roman daily life and domestic architecture.
The twenty-third Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC)
was held at King s College, London in Spring 2013. During the
three-day conference nearly 50 papers were delivered, discussing
issues from a wide range of geographical regions of the Roman
Empire, and applying various theoretical and methodological
approaches. Sessions included those looking at Roman Barbarian
interactions; identity and funerary monuments in ancient Italy;
migration and social identity in the Roman Near East; theoretical
approaches to Roman small finds; formation processes of in-fills in
urban sites; and new reflections on Roman glass. This volume
contains a selection of papers from the conference sessions."
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