CLAS 365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Chalcidian League, Fraternities And Sororities, List Of Ancient Macedonians
20 Apr 2017
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Usually removed to get to other earlier buildings. So publications usually on classical or archaic houses. Very few domestic remains have been published from major sites like antioch, seleucia, and so on. Theyre all still thriving cities, many of them have persisted through history so those later remains have obscured. Despite problems, hellenistic houses have been excavated, at pella, Olynthus, chalcidice. is dated to close to alexanders death. Hellenistic period. the essential plan of hellenistic houses compared to classical ones. Principal changes lay in the increase scale and more elaborate decorations of the houses of the wealthiest sectors of society: best studied site is olynthus, excavations shows some 100 houses. Olynthus sites on two flat top hills, city is in the chacidice, southeast maceodnina. True city in 5th century bc, through 4th century sees continued expensioon due to calchidian league. At this time the second hill is inhabited.
