A dictionary of Greek and Roman . vpycp seem to imply abuilding several stories high.) The access to theupper floor seems to have been sometimes by stairson the outside of the house, leading up from thestreet. Guests were also lodged in the upperstory. (Antiph. de Yenef. p. 611.) But in somelarge houses there were rooms set apart for theirreception (^evaves) on the grotmd floor. ( c. ; Pollux, iv. 125 ; Eurip. Alcest. 564.) InI cases of emergency store-rooms were fitted up for theI accommodation of guests. (Plato, Protag. p. 315.) 426 DOMUS. DOMUS. Portions of the upper
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . vpycp seem to imply abuilding several stories high.) The access to theupper floor seems to have been sometimes by stairson the outside of the house, leading up from thestreet. Guests were also lodged in the upperstory. (Antiph. de Yenef. p. 611.) But in somelarge houses there were rooms set apart for theirreception (^evaves) on the grotmd floor. ( c. ; Pollux, iv. 125 ; Eurip. Alcest. 564.) InI cases of emergency store-rooms were fitted up for theI accommodation of guests. (Plato, Protag. p. 315.) 426 DOMUS. DOMUS. Portions of the upper story sometimes projectedbeyond the walls of the lower part, forming bal-conies or verandahs (irpo6o\cu, •y^KTiiTo^L(rjxaraJPollux, i. 81). The following plan of the ground-floor of a Greekhouse of the larger size is taken from BekkersCharikles. It is of course conjectural, as there areno Greek houses in existence. Other plans, differ-ing very much from this and from one another,are given by Hirt, Stieglitz, and the commentatorson a, House-door, avAeios &vpa: &vp, passage,&vpoopeiov or &vpwv ; A, peristyle or of theAndronitis : o, the halls and chambers of the An-dronitis ; /x, fx4rav\os or /xecravAos &vpa ; r, peri-style of the Gynaeconitis ; 7, chambers of theGynaeconitis • 7r, Trpocrras or irapacrras: 6, &d\a-jxos and afMpiQaXaixos : I, rooms for working inwool (icrrcHves) ; K, garden-door, Kiqirala &vpa. The roofs were generally flat, and it was cus-tomary to walk about upon them. (Lysias, , p. 142 ; Plaut. Mil. ii. 2. 3.) But pointedroofs were also used. (Pollux, i. 81.) In the interior of the house the place of doorswas sometimes supplied by curtains {ivapa-KeTaa-fxara), which were either plain, or dyed, or em-broidered. (Pollux, x. 32 ; Theophrast. 5.) The principal openings for the admission of lightand air were in the roofs of the peristyles; but itis incorrect to suppose that the houses had nowindows (pvpiSes), or at least none overlook
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