Domestic Spaces and Mythical Time Archetypes of the Cosmic Order in Greek Houses in the 8th century BC

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Iuliana Lebedeva

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This paper considers the arrangement of domestic space as depicted in the Odyssey. Emphasis is laid on its symbolic aspect: as a place where a range of objects with cosmological significance were concentrated. These objects were integral elements in the arrangement of human dwellings, but they were simultaneously present in mythical space, where they acted as mechanisms supporting the cosmic order. Besides, these artefacts were also connected to the moment in mythical time when the cosmic order was established, and thus they implemented a harmonising and ordering function. With the presence of these architectural elements in domestic space, human dwellings could have been perceived as a kind of “cosmic house”, connected both to mythical space and mythical time.

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Lebedeva, I. (2024). Domestic Spaces and Mythical Time: Archetypes of the Cosmic Order in Greek Houses in the 8th century BC. Sapiens Ubique Civis, 5, 9–23. https://doi.org/10.14232/suc.2024.5.9-23
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Iuliana Lebedeva, Masaryk University, Brno

defended her doctoral thesis in the department of classics at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic in June 2024. Her dissertation, entitled "Chronotope in the mentality of the Greeks of the 8th century BC," considers the interconnection between spatial and temporal parameters in the 8th century BC Greek thought, as revealed in the concept of the chronotope. The field of her interest is the history of ancient Greece and classical languages.