Roman houses – Ancient Rome
Roman houses: A model of a typical house (from Egypt) Living in one room Most people in the Roman Empire lived with their whole family in one room of a sort of small [...]
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What is a cloister? Medieval architecture
Cloister at Moissac (ca. 1100 AD, southern France) Where do cloisters come from? Cloisters were a medieval kind of building that developed out of Greek and then Roman peristyles. What is [...]
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What is a peristyle? Greek architecture
Peristyle in the House of the Vettii (Pompeii, 79 AD) A peristyle is a courtyard with a covered walkway all the way around it, with columns holding up the ceiling [...]
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Greek and Roman houses – History of Architecture
A peristyle of a Roman house at Ostia - 200s AD In classical Athens around 500 BC, and throughout the Greek world, people built courtyard houses, like earlier ones in Egypt [...]
