AULA
AULA (
αὐλή), an open yard, or
court. In the Homeric house the
αὐλὴ
served the purpose of a farm-yard, and was surrounded with farm-buildings
and rooms for the men-servants of the house. In the later Greek house it was
a kind of quadrangle surrounded with a colonnade, into which the rooms of
the house opened, and was used as a place for exercise and recreation.
(Rumpf,
De aedibus Homericis; A. Winckler,
Die Wohnhäuser der Hellenen.) For further
particulars, see
DOMUS
[
J.H.O]