prodomos

Updated: June 18, 2025

The women entered by the women's door, at the eastern extremity. Guests did not sleep, as in Homer, in the prodomos, or the portico the climate did not permit it but in one or other hall. The hall was wainscotted; the walls were hung with shields and weapons, like the hall of Odysseus. The heads of the family usually slept in the aisles, in chambers entered through the wainscot of the hall.

Andrew Lang - Homer and His Age