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‖ megaron|ˈmɛgərən|
[Gr. µέγαρον hall.]
The great central hall of a type of house characteristic esp. of the Mycenæan period. Also attrib.
1877Architect 4 Aug. 54/2 Palace of Ulysses at Ithaca...Within was another portico and a stately doorway, admitting to the megaron; this was a large apartment, unfloored, but lofty, roofed, and used as a dining hall by the men. 1906Ann. Brit. Sch. Athens XII. 253 A fixed central hearth was introduced into the megaron to suit the needs of a more rigid climate than the original Africo-Aegean one. 1907T. D. Seymour Life Homeric Age vi. 188 The great hall or megaron is the centre of the life of the household—not unlike the baronial halls of the old English castles. 1928C. Dawson Age of Gods iii. 58 They brought with them a new type of house, with a pillared porch opening into a single large room or hall. This is the so-called Megaron house, which was characteristic of the early Greeks. 1950H. L. Lorimer Homer & Monuments i. 6 A form of the megaron house, rectangular, with a single entrance to the main room and a more or less central hearth standing clear of the walls. 1963New Scientist 9 May 301 Evidence which strongly suggests that the ‘megaron’ was an Anatolian rather than a Greek invention. |