Space, Movement, and Visibility in Pompeian Houses

Auteur

Michael A. Anderson is Chair of Classics at San Francisco State University (USA) and Director of the Via Consolare Project in Pompeii. He is coauthor of the House of the Surgeon, Pompeii: Excavations in the Casa del Chirurgo (VI 1, 9-10.23) (2018).

Résumé
This volume examines the role of movement, visibility, and experience within Pompeian houses through the application of GIS-based analysis. Suitable for students and scholars of Pompeian houses and domestic life, Roman architecture and urbanism, and spatial analysis and space syntax.

Contenu

1. The problem of Pompeian houses; 2. Reconstructing activities in Roman (and Pompeian) houses; 3. The analysis of domestic space; 4. Visitors, inhabitants, space, and power in Pompeian houses; 5. Case studies; 6. Spatial-visual analysis and post-earthquake Pompeii; 7. The spatial-visual analysis of wall painting; 8. Reflections on the spatial-visual study of Pompeian houses.