Spaces of Everyday Life in Democratic Greece

1. Spaces of Everyday Life in Democratic Greece

2. I. Spaces of everyday life in Athens The Agora, Athens, Greece, 5th-2nd cen. B.C. Athens agora agora acropolis acropolis

3. I. A. What are the typical buildings on the agora in Athens? The Agora in Athens sea Temple of Hephaistos Pnyx Prytaneion (public hearth) Stoa of Zeus Royal stoa Painted stoa Middle stoa Bouleuterion

4. I. A. The Agora in Athens

5. I. A. 1. How were stoas used to define the space of the agora in the Classical period? The Agora at Athens Reconstruction of the Painted Stoa in Athens

6. I. A. 2. On the agora, what building functioned as the official “home” of the whole people of the city? The Agora at Athens City hearth (Skias) in Athens memory of the Mycenaean megaron

7. II. The Classical Oikos as epitome of Greek democratic values 3. oikos = hearth, house, household Houses near the Agora at Athens Houses in Olynthos, Greece

8. II. A. What does the anonymity (lack of individuality) and modest size of private residences reveal about the function of domestic space in the Classical period? 1. 4. Priene, Turkey (ancient Ionia) Olynthos, Greece

9. II. B. What does the inward-turned quality of the Classical oikos suggest about the family’s relationship to the larger collective in Greek democratic city-states? opposite poles oikos agora Athens Athens

10. III. Basic configuration of the modest, anonymous, court-centered Greek house . . . . A. What were the typical materials, size, entrances, fenestration, facade, and relationship to neighboring houses and to street of the Greek courtyard house? Two oikoi in Athens

11. III. A. Classical oikos in Olynthos Late Classical oikos in Athens with peristyle court

12. III. B. Plan: Typical rooms of the Greek oikos. Oikos at Ano Liossia, Greece, 5th-4th cen. B.C. 1. courtyard – living, lighting, (centripetal organization like the agora). 2. andron – “men’s room” 3. hearth – descendant of the Bronze-Age megaron, problematic, not present in remains except in kitchens. 4. shop or workshop (?) – whole house as center of small- scale production?

13. III. B. 1. courtyard – living, lighting, (centripetal organization like the agora). 2. andron – “men’s room” 3. hearth – descendant of the Bronze-Age megaron, problematic, not present in remains except in kitchens. 4. shop or workshop (?) – whole house as center of small- scale production? a symposium in an andron

14. III. B. Oikos at Ano Liossia, Greece, 5th-4th cen. B.C. 1. courtyard – living, lighting, (centripetal organization like the agora). 2. andron – “men’s room” 3. hearth – descendant of the Bronze-Age megaron, problematic, not present in remains except in kitchens. 4. shop or workshop (?) – whole house as center of small- scale production? ? ? just kitchen megaron inspired hearth

15. IV. Gender: the Greek Oikos as organizer and mediator of major social relationships: men and women oikos andron of an oikos Athens Olynthos Priene

16. IV. A. Is there blatant architectural evidence that women were secluded when they were in the oikos? 8. Contrast the clear architectural seclusion of women among the Hausa people in Kano, Nigeria

17. IV. B. How might the architecture of Greek oikos have worked passively to separate women? 1. Through the arrangement of key rooms in plan? 5. Oikos(on the Areopagus Hill), Athens

18. IV. B. 1. Oikos at Olynthos Model of an oikos at Olynthos

19. IV. B. 2. How might different patterns of use have created a de facto separation of men and women within the house? IV. B. 1. 6. Oikos at Ano Liossia

20. IV. B. 3. How did the architecture of the house facilitate women’s control and surveillance of guests moving in and out of the house without her exposed to the public eye? the feminine scopic eye Oikos at Olynthos Oikos at Ano Liossia