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The prevalent notions about the Greek house, however much they have varied from one another, have usually agreed on certain essential characteristics; indeed, it may almost be said that there is a general consensus of opinion among archaeologists in favour of a normal plan such as that given in P. Gardner and Jevons' Manual of Greek Antiquities. According to this plan the Greek house consists of two courts; the first, which is entered through a vestibule from the street, is called the ἀνδρωνῖτις it is the court of the men, and is surrounded by colonnades, out of which open the living and sleeping rooms of the male members of the household. Behind this is a passage, closed by the μέταυλος or μέσαυλος θύρα leading into a second court called the γυναικωνῖτις or court of the women. At the back of this second court is the deep recess known as the παστὰς προστάς on the other sides are colonnades; and around the court are the living and sleeping rooms of the women, the largest and most important, the θάλαμος and ἀμφιθάλαμος being on either side of the παστάς
page 294 note 1 J.H.S. xx. p. 128 sqq.
page 296 note 1 J.H.S. vii. 170.
page 298 note 1 The Greek houses recently discovered at Priene still remain unpublished; but I am informed that they confirm, in general, the inferences here drawn from the houses at Delos.
page 299 note 1 Mem. iii. 8.
page 299 note 2 Gee. i. 6.
page 299 note 3 De Curios, 3.
page 299 note 4 § 53.
page 300 note 1 Oec. ix. 2.
page 300 note 2 92–94.
page 301 note 1 Ὲρωτ. ii. 19.
page 301 note 2 1. 543—
χωρὶς ξενῶνές εἰσὶν οῖ σ᾿ ἐσάξομεν 
ἡγοῦ σὺ τῶνδε δωμάτων ἐξωπιους ξενῶνας οἴξας τοῖς δ᾿ ἐφεστῶσιν φράσον σίτων περεῖναι πλῆθος ἐν δὲ κλῄσατε θύρας μεσαύλους οὐ πρέπει θοινωμένους κλύειν στεναγμῶν οὐδὲ λυπεῖσθαι ξένους
page 301 note 3 vi. 10.
page 301 note 4 So MSS.; Rose and Müller-Strabing emend. to ad.
page 303 note 1 De Antidotis, 1. 3.
page 304 note 1 The resemblance of the Hall and Court of Tiryns to the temple and temenos of later Greece is sometimes very remarkable. Cf. the temple of Soter, Zeus, ‘Excavations at Megalopolis,’ .p. 58Google Scholar.
page 304 note 2 A third buildirg should be added on the left, corresponding exactly to the one on the right; see Dörpfeld, , Troja, 1895Google Scholar, Pl. 1, II E.
