Otium, Opulentia and Opsis
Setting, Performance and Perception Within the mise-en-scène of the Roman House
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20039915 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Beacham (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Pages | 361-408 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Performance in Greek and Roman theatre (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004245457_020 |
| OpenAlex | W2491957713 |
| ISBN | 9789004245457 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
By the period of the late Republic / early Principate, the typical Pompeian town house was divided into two distinct and, to a significant extent, functionally separate realms. The first consisted of the fauces and/or vestibulum , leading on to the atrium , tablinum and adjacent rooms. The provision of a peristyle, an architectural entity widely found in the Greek world, evoked both the Greek peristyle house, but also the Hellenic shrines and palaces in which it figured, associations in turn imported into sumptuous Roman rural villa architecture. Houses were one of the major “media” that defined the social position, moral qualities, and ideological superiority of their elite Roman owners while dynamically and performatively giving visible expression of these in public life. They provided the necessary mise-en-scene within which crucially important distinctions of social rank could be made visible, manipulated and enacted. Keywords: atrium ; Mise-en-scene ; peristyle; Roman house; tablinum ; vestibulum
Art · Elite · Ideology · Perception · Political science · Politics · Visual arts · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Architecture · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical and Architectural Studies · Law · Psychology
| Citations per year | 1.63 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |