Lisa C Nevett
Biographic Data
| ID | 2302941 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa C Nevett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa C |
| FAMILY NAME | Nevett |
| SIGNATURE | NEVETT L C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ancient Greek Housing
The temples and theatres of the ancient Greek world are widely known, but there is less familiarity with the houses in which people lived. In this book, Lisa Nevett provides an accessible introduction to the varied forms of housing found across the Greek world between c. 1000 and 200 BCE. Many houses adopted a courtyard structure which she sets within a broader chronological, geographical and socio-economic context. The book explores how housing …
Toward a More Dynamic Modeling of Ancient Domestic Space: An Example from First-Millennium BCE Greece
Recent archaeological discussions of domestic space in a variety of cultural contexts have pointed out the limitations of the static models that have typically been used to discuss the arrangement of activities and their associated modes of social organization. Taking the example of the Greek world during the first millennium BCE, this article explores some of the insights that can be gained by reorienting attention toward a more dynamic understa…
Architectural Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Architecture: Athens and Macedon in the Mid-4th Century bce
Like those studying other aspects of the ancient world, archaeologists working on housing frequently use textual evidence to provide a framework within which the archaeological material can be understood. This chapter suggests that the reverse can also be helpful, namely using archaeology to provide a context which facilitates a clearer understanding of some of the textual evidence. As an example, I choose three passages from Demosthenes which al…
Constructing the ‘Urban Profile’ of an Ancient Greek City: Evidence From the Olynthos Project
This article argues that a holistic approach to documenting and understanding the physical evidence for individual cities would enhance our ability to address major questions about urbanisation, urbanism, cultural identities and economic processes. At the same time we suggest that providing more comprehensive data-sets concerning Greek cities would represent an important contribution to cross-cultural studies of urban development and urbanism, wh…
Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece: Manipulating Material Culture
In the modern world, objects and buildings speak eloquently about their creators. Status, gender identity, and cultural affiliations are just a few characteristics we can often infer about such material culture. But can we make similar deductions about the inhabitants of the first millennium BCE Greek world? Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece offers a series of case studies exploring how a theoretical approach to the arch…
Towards a Multi-Scalar, Multidisciplinary Approach to the Classical Greek City: The Olynthos Project
Research on the cities of the Classical Greek world has traditionally focused on mapping the organisation of urban space and studying major civic or religious buildings. More recently, newer techniques such as field survey and geophysical survey have facilitated exploration of the extent and character of larger areas within urban settlements, raising questions about economic processes. At the same time, detailed analysis of residential buildings …
Towards a Female Topography of the Ancient Greek City: Case Studies from Late Archaic and Early Classical Athens ( c .520–400 BCE)
In this article, I seek to move beyond the traditional, polarised model of ancient Greek cities which views the civic sphere as gendered male in contrast with the domestic sphere which was gendered female. I argue that this model oversimplifies a much more complex set of relationships, leading scholars to underplay the possibilities for female agency within the built environment of the Classical city ( polis ) and to underestimate the scope of wo…
Domestic Space in Classical Antiquity
Housing is shaped by culturally-specific expectations about the kinds of architecture and furnishings that are appropriate; about how and where different activities should be carried out; and by and with whom. It is those expectations, and the wider social and cultural systems of which they are a part, that are explored in this volume. At the same time, the book as a whole argues two larger points: first, that while houses, households and familie…
Ancient Greek Houses and Households: Chronological, Regional, and Social Diversity
List of Illustrations Preface 1. Introduction -Lisa C. Nevett 2. Structural Change in Archaic Greek Housing -Franziska Lang 3. Security, Synoikismos, and Koinon as Determinants for Troad Housing in Classical and Hellenistic Times -William Aylward 4. Household Industry in Anatolia and Greece -Nicholas Cahill 5. Living and Working around the Athenian Agora: A Preliminary Case Study of Three Houses -Barbara Tsakirgis 6. Between Urban and Rural: Hous…
The Royal Palace Institution in the First Millenium BC: Regional Development and Cultural Interchange between East and West . By Inge Nielsen
Hugh Last Fellowship: Domestic space and social organization in classical antiquity
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Wohnen in Delos: Eine baugeschichtliche Untersuchung zum Wandel der Wohnkultur in hellenistischer Zeit . By Monika Trümper
A real estate ‘market’ in Classical Greece? The example of town housing
In the past it has often been assumed that, although rental of real estate in Classical Greece was relatively common, sales of such property were not. This article challenges that assumption by looking in detail at a small group of inscriptions from Olynthos in the Chalkidiki, which date to the first half of the fourth century and record transactions involving houses in the city. By analysing these documents in conjunction with their archaeologic…
House and society in the ancient Greek world
Using archaeological evidence from individual houses, the author discusses the social relationships in Greek households during the Classical and Hellenistic periods.
Greek Households under Roman Hegemony: The Archaeological Evidence
Abandoned but not forgotten: Gerritsen on the domestic lifecycle
The subject of Gerritsen's paper and the way in which it is presented invite comment on three main aspects: firstly, his theoretical stance, secondly the methodology he uses and thirdly, his conclusions regarding the farmsteads which he seeks to understand. Since my own specialism lies well outside the area and period with which his paper deals, I shall focus my discussion on the first two aspects
Megale Oikia. Untersuchungen zur Entwicklung aufwendiger griechischer Stadthausarchitektur: Von der Früharchaik bis ins 3. Jh. v. Chr., I-II . By Moritz Kiderlen
Gender relations in the classical Greek household: The archaeological evidence
Despite the amount of textual material surviving from classical Greece, our knowledge of the household has remained limited because of the selectivity and orientation of those texts. In this paper, archaeological remains of late 5th- to late 4th-cent. houses are explored in order to shed light on aspects of domestic relations that recur most frequently in the sources: the relationship between male and female household members, and the way in whic…
Gender relations in the classical Greek household: The archaeological evidence
Despite the amount of textual material surviving from classical Greece, our knowledge of the household has remained limited because of the selectivity and orientation of those texts. In this paper, archaeological remains of late 5th- to late 4th-cent. houses are explored in order to shed light on aspects of domestic relations that recur most frequently in the sources: the relationship between male and female household members, and the way in whic…
Towards a Female Topography of the Ancient Greek City: Case Studies from Late Archaic and Early Classical Athens ( c .520–400 BCE)
In this article, I seek to move beyond the traditional, polarised model of ancient Greek cities which views the civic sphere as gendered male in contrast with the domestic sphere which was gendered female. I argue that this model oversimplifies a much more complex set of relationships, leading scholars to underplay the possibilities for female agency within the built environment of the Classical city ( polis ) and to underestimate the scope of wo…
Constructing the ‘Urban Profile’ of an Ancient Greek City: Evidence From the Olynthos Project
This article argues that a holistic approach to documenting and understanding the physical evidence for individual cities would enhance our ability to address major questions about urbanisation, urbanism, cultural identities and economic processes. At the same time we suggest that providing more comprehensive data-sets concerning Greek cities would represent an important contribution to cross-cultural studies of urban development and urbanism, wh…
A real estate ‘market’ in Classical Greece? The example of town housing
In the past it has often been assumed that, although rental of real estate in Classical Greece was relatively common, sales of such property were not. This article challenges that assumption by looking in detail at a small group of inscriptions from Olynthos in the Chalkidiki, which date to the first half of the fourth century and record transactions involving houses in the city. By analysing these documents in conjunction with their archaeologic…
Towards a Multi-Scalar, Multidisciplinary Approach to the Classical Greek City: The Olynthos Project
Research on the cities of the Classical Greek world has traditionally focused on mapping the organisation of urban space and studying major civic or religious buildings. More recently, newer techniques such as field survey and geophysical survey have facilitated exploration of the extent and character of larger areas within urban settlements, raising questions about economic processes. At the same time, detailed analysis of residential buildings …
Abandoned but not forgotten: Gerritsen on the domestic lifecycle
The subject of Gerritsen's paper and the way in which it is presented invite comment on three main aspects: firstly, his theoretical stance, secondly the methodology he uses and thirdly, his conclusions regarding the farmsteads which he seeks to understand. Since my own specialism lies well outside the area and period with which his paper deals, I shall focus my discussion on the first two aspects
Gender relations in the classical Greek household: The archaeological evidence
Despite the amount of textual material surviving from classical Greece, our knowledge of the household has remained limited because of the selectivity and orientation of those texts. In this paper, archaeological remains of late 5th- to late 4th-cent. houses are explored in order to shed light on aspects of domestic relations that recur most frequently in the sources: the relationship between male and female household members, and the way in whic…
Megale Oikia. Untersuchungen zur Entwicklung aufwendiger griechischer Stadthausarchitektur: Von der Früharchaik bis ins 3. Jh. v. Chr., I-II . By Moritz Kiderlen
House and society in the ancient Greek world
Using archaeological evidence from individual houses, the author discusses the social relationships in Greek households during the Classical and Hellenistic periods.
Greek Households under Roman Hegemony: The Archaeological Evidence
Abandoned but not forgotten: Gerritsen on the domestic lifecycle
The subject of Gerritsen's paper and the way in which it is presented invite comment on three main aspects: firstly, his theoretical stance, secondly the methodology he uses and thirdly, his conclusions regarding the farmsteads which he seeks to understand. Since my own specialism lies well outside the area and period with which his paper deals, I shall focus my discussion on the first two aspects
A real estate ‘market’ in Classical Greece? The example of town housing
In the past it has often been assumed that, although rental of real estate in Classical Greece was relatively common, sales of such property were not. This article challenges that assumption by looking in detail at a small group of inscriptions from Olynthos in the Chalkidiki, which date to the first half of the fourth century and record transactions involving houses in the city. By analysing these documents in conjunction with their archaeologic…
Wohnen in Delos: Eine baugeschichtliche Untersuchung zum Wandel der Wohnkultur in hellenistischer Zeit . By Monika Trümper
Hugh Last Fellowship: Domestic space and social organization in classical antiquity
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Royal Palace Institution in the First Millenium BC: Regional Development and Cultural Interchange between East and West . By Inge Nielsen
Ancient Greek Houses and Households: Chronological, Regional, and Social Diversity
List of Illustrations Preface 1. Introduction -Lisa C. Nevett 2. Structural Change in Archaic Greek Housing -Franziska Lang 3. Security, Synoikismos, and Koinon as Determinants for Troad Housing in Classical and Hellenistic Times -William Aylward 4. Household Industry in Anatolia and Greece -Nicholas Cahill 5. Living and Working around the Athenian Agora: A Preliminary Case Study of Three Houses -Barbara Tsakirgis 6. Between Urban and Rural: Hous…
Domestic Space in Classical Antiquity
Housing is shaped by culturally-specific expectations about the kinds of architecture and furnishings that are appropriate; about how and where different activities should be carried out; and by and with whom. It is those expectations, and the wider social and cultural systems of which they are a part, that are explored in this volume. At the same time, the book as a whole argues two larger points: first, that while houses, households and familie…
Towards a Female Topography of the Ancient Greek City: Case Studies from Late Archaic and Early Classical Athens ( c .520–400 BCE)
In this article, I seek to move beyond the traditional, polarised model of ancient Greek cities which views the civic sphere as gendered male in contrast with the domestic sphere which was gendered female. I argue that this model oversimplifies a much more complex set of relationships, leading scholars to underplay the possibilities for female agency within the built environment of the Classical city ( polis ) and to underestimate the scope of wo…
Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece: Manipulating Material Culture
In the modern world, objects and buildings speak eloquently about their creators. Status, gender identity, and cultural affiliations are just a few characteristics we can often infer about such material culture. But can we make similar deductions about the inhabitants of the first millennium BCE Greek world? Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece offers a series of case studies exploring how a theoretical approach to the arch…
Towards a Multi-Scalar, Multidisciplinary Approach to the Classical Greek City: The Olynthos Project
Research on the cities of the Classical Greek world has traditionally focused on mapping the organisation of urban space and studying major civic or religious buildings. More recently, newer techniques such as field survey and geophysical survey have facilitated exploration of the extent and character of larger areas within urban settlements, raising questions about economic processes. At the same time, detailed analysis of residential buildings …
Constructing the ‘Urban Profile’ of an Ancient Greek City: Evidence From the Olynthos Project
This article argues that a holistic approach to documenting and understanding the physical evidence for individual cities would enhance our ability to address major questions about urbanisation, urbanism, cultural identities and economic processes. At the same time we suggest that providing more comprehensive data-sets concerning Greek cities would represent an important contribution to cross-cultural studies of urban development and urbanism, wh…
Architectural Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Architecture: Athens and Macedon in the Mid-4th Century bce
Like those studying other aspects of the ancient world, archaeologists working on housing frequently use textual evidence to provide a framework within which the archaeological material can be understood. This chapter suggests that the reverse can also be helpful, namely using archaeology to provide a context which facilitates a clearer understanding of some of the textual evidence. As an example, I choose three passages from Demosthenes which al…
Ancient Greek Housing
The temples and theatres of the ancient Greek world are widely known, but there is less familiarity with the houses in which people lived. In this book, Lisa Nevett provides an accessible introduction to the varied forms of housing found across the Greek world between c. 1000 and 200 BCE. Many houses adopted a courtyard structure which she sets within a broader chronological, geographical and socio-economic context. The book explores how housing …
Toward a More Dynamic Modeling of Ancient Domestic Space: An Example from First-Millennium BCE Greece
Recent archaeological discussions of domestic space in a variety of cultural contexts have pointed out the limitations of the static models that have typically been used to discuss the arrangement of activities and their associated modes of social organization. Taking the example of the Greek world during the first millennium BCE, this article explores some of the insights that can be gained by reorienting attention toward a more dynamic understa…
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