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Author Smith, J. T. (John Thomas), 1922-

Title Roman villas : a study in social structure / J.T. Smith ; drawings by A.T. Adams
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiii, 378 pages) : illustrations
Contents pt. 1. Aims and methods -- pt. 2. Types of plan -- pt. 3. The villa system in operation : modes of change
Summary 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 t
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-339) and indexes
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Subject Architecture, Domestic -- Rome
Architecture, Roman -- Europe
Architecture and society -- Rome
ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Residential.
Architecture and society
Architecture, Domestic
Architecture, Roman
Landhuizen.
Plattegronden.
Europe
Rome (Empire)
Romeinse rijk.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0203270657
9780203270653
0203004051
9780203004050
9780415167192
0415167191
9786610334766
6610334765
9780415620116
0415620112