Habitable House of Homeric Period (12-8 B.C.) in ‘Iliad’ and ‘Odyssey’
Abstract
The paper considers the lyrics of Homer poems dedicated to the interior architecture of buildings of Homer period (12-8th B.C.), namely: urban and countryside houses, palaces of Alcinous, Menelaus, Nestor, Odyssey, Priam and others. The detailed description is given to town-planning aspects, functional purposes of different rooms, architectural elements, and parts, building materials and structures applied in decoration of different rooms. The household furniture and engineering facilities played a great role for the room design (heating and lighting) that provided comfortable conditions for their residents.
About the Authors
Evgenii N. Polyakov
Tomsk State University of Architecture and Building
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Aleksandr V. Krasovskii
Tomsk State University of Architecture and Building
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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Polyakov E.N., Krasovskii A.V. Habitable House of Homeric Period (12-8 B.C.) in ‘Iliad’ and ‘Odyssey’. Vestnik of Tomsk state university of architecture and building. 2016;(5):9-25. (In Russ.)
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