Ancient Greek Housing

LISA C. NEVETT is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Michigan. Her books include House and Society in the Ancient Greek World (1999), Domestic Space in Classical Antiquity (2010), Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece (edited, 2017) and An Age of Experiment: Classical Archaeology Transformed (co-edited, 2018). Between 2014 and 2019 she co-directed the excavation of a Classical house at Olynthos (northern Greece).

'Lisa Nevett has established herself as perhaps the foremost current expert in ancient Greek housing, both in the homeland and the Greek colonial world … She has taken her scholarship further with the significant reopening of excavations at a key ancient planned city at Olynthus in Northern Greece. … This volume gathers together the fruits of her many previous publications on Greek housing with an excellent up-to-date survey of recent fieldwork and publications, clearly written, and covering the whole chronological span from 1000 BC to the end of the Hellenistic era, and the Greek world over much of the Mediterranean and Black Sea. It is an ideal basis for students and scholars of Classical Antiquity to catch up on this clearly still-developing field.' John Bintliff, Journal of Greek Archaeology

• 1. Introducing ancient Greek housing; 2. Greek domestic architecture ca. 950–500 BCE: re-inventing the house; 3. Classical Athens and Attica: the anatomy of housing in a city and its territory; 4. Housing in mainland Greece during the classical period: towards a shared ideal?; 5. Housing Greek households in the eastern, western and southern Mediterranean and northern Black Sea littoral: the boundaries of an ideal?; 6. Housing, power and wealth in Greek communities during the late classical and early Hellenistic periods: stretching the ideal?; 7. Greek housing into the Hellenistic period: the transformation of an ideal?; Epilogue: the single-entrance, courtyard house and beyond.