Re: Porches and other things
From: Fred H Olson WB0YQM (fholsonmaroon.tc.umn.edu)
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 95 10:58:41 CST
Shava SHAVA [at] NETWORK-SERVICES.UOREGON.EDU S: SHAVA [at] PHLOEM.UOREGON.EDU
is the author of the message below but due
to a listserv problem it was posted by the COHOUSING-L sysop (Fred).
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> According to one of the historical housing books I read yesterday---the
> roofed over porch was used extensively in the ancient Greek societies.
> 
> The writers said that the height of the roof above the porch was so high that
> it couldn't shelter people standing on the porch from the sun or adverse
> weather. 
> 
> Apparantly, the covered porch was a spiritual space, where one is expected to
> pause, before entering the building.

Personally, I find a mezuzah a more effective use of resources to the same
purpose...;)

Obviously there's a disagreement of scholarship here somewhere, since 
Golden_Thread listed city plans and showed the familiar angle-of-incidence
diagrams of how the porches worked.  However, it could be that we are
just missing periods.  You are talking about *ancient* Greece, and I am
talking about Classical Greece thru Imperial Rome.  There were a couple 
hundreds of years for the technology to advance in there.

Shava

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