Les maisons des négociants italiens à Délos : structuration de l’espace domestique dans une société en mouvement

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Histoire et anthropologie des mondes anciens | 2015Marchands romains au long cours Les maisons des négociants italiens à Délos : structuration de l'espace domestique dans une société en mouvement

Mithridates, Helianax and Late Hellenistic Delos as Global City: Urban Insularity and Integration Fields

“…Accordingly, the commercial prosperity of Delos has been taken as the key to interpret its urban growth. Recent studies on Delian urbanism have focused on the building activity related either to commercial activities or to the cosmopolitan community installed in the island due to its economic opportunities (Chankowski, 2020;Hasenohr, 2012;Karvonis, 2008;Karvonis & Malmary, 2018;Trümper, 2008Trümper, , 2011Zarmakoupi, 2015Zarmakoupi, , 2018a; relatively few studies have focused on the relation between spaces and their implications for the Delian urbanism (Bruneau, 1968;Fraisse, 1983Fraisse, , 2020Fraisse & Fadin, 2020;Marc, 2000). The image that emerges, however, is that a city whose historicity depends on the transformations of the middle of the second century, with little to do with the particular insularity built in the relation of Delos and the wider world along the previous centuries; buildings such as the temple of Mithridates, in that paradigm, appears to add little to the comprehension of the urbanism as a whole.…”