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Author Cahill, Nicholas.

Title Household and city organization at Olynthus / Nicholas Cahill
Published New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 383 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Greek City Planning in Theory and Practice -- Chapter 2: History and Archaeology at Olynthus -- Chapter 3: The Houses Described -- Chapter 4: The Houses Organized -- Chapter 5: The Organization of Blocks -- Chapter 6: The Economies of Olynthus -- Appendix 1: Cluster Analysis of Room Areas, Five-Cluster Solution -- Appendix 2: Sales Inscriptions from Olynthus -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- General Index -- Index of Houses and Buildings, Blocks, Trenches, and Streets
Summary This book explains the relationships between house and city, between household and community, as they were worked out in practice at Olynthus in northern Greece. This polis was occupied for a short period of time, for eighty-four years at the most, and was then violently destroyed, leaving tens of thousands of artifacts on the final floors of its houses, and for the most part never reoccupied. A large part of the city was excavated between 1928 and 1938 by David M. Robinson, who published his findings in fourteen massive volumes. The archaeology of Olynthus offers a fuller and richer picture of Greek domestic and civic life than almost any other Greek site
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-369) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject City planning -- Greece -- Olynthus (Extinct city)
Dwellings -- Greece -- Olynthus (Extinct city)
HISTORY -- Ancient.
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece.
Buildings
City planning
Dwellings
Huishoudingen.
Dagelijks leven.
Archeologische vondsten.
Sociaal-economische aspecten.
Griekse oudheid.
SUBJECT Olynthus (Extinct city) -- Buildings, structures, etc
Subject Greece -- Olynthus (Extinct city)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300133004
0300133006
1281731218
9781281731210