Diaeta
In Roman architecture, diaeta ( plural : diaetae ) is an architecturally separate and / or functionally separate part of an overall system. In addition to the meanings of “regulated lifestyle” and “diet”, the Latin term (like the Greek δίαιτα ) denoted the place of residence or living space.
Specifically, the term was used especially in Pliny the Younger's villa letters for groups of rooms within a villa , but also for separate summer houses and summer houses. In the imperial palaces Diaetae had their own names, e.g. B. Diaeta Hermaeum . The Diaeta was supervised by a freedman or a slave, the Diaetarchus .
Later, individual rooms were also referred to as diaeta .
Finally, the designation Diaeta is still used for the apartment of an overseer of tombs or for the tombs themselves. Ship cabins were also called diaeta .
literature
- Walter Hatto Gross : Diaeta. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1964, column 1505 f.
- Reinhard Förtsch : Archaeological commentary on the villa letters of the younger Pliny. Contributions to the development of Hellenistic and Imperial Sculpture and Architecture 13. Zabern, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-8053-1317-9 . Latin and German text.
Web links
- The Roman House on LacusCurtius (excerpt from article in William Smith: A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. John Murray, London, 1875)