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A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life

Note * — Chapter IV · The Athenian House and its Furnishings.

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Such a luxury would not be common in city houses; land would be too valuable.

[+] Houses of more than two stories seem to have been unknown in Athens. The city lacked the towering rookeries of tenements (insulæ) which were characteristic of Rome; sometimes, however, a house seems to have been shared between several families.

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