sanitation

sanitation

Greek

Developed arrangements in Greek towns for sanitation are a relatively late phenomenon, coming in with the planned cities in the 4th cent. bc. Scenes of the symposium on Greek vases depict the use of the chamber-pot, whose contents would be thrown out of the house, probably into open channels along the road surfaces. No recognizable system of drainage exists in Athens, other than the canalized stream which flows through the area of houses west of the Areopagus. The houses of Olynthus (N. Greece) provide evidence for bathrooms and tubs, with terracotta drainpipes leading the waste away from the house and along the streets. What appears to be a fixed latrine was found in house A vii 9; it had an extended spout passing through the wall of the house, to empty directly onto the street. A similar example has been found in the Xenon at Nemea. The streets of Pella (Macedonia) have substantial covered sewers into which...

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