μέγαρον (μέγας): properly large room.—(1)
the men's dining-hall, the chief room of the Homeric
house. The roof was supported by columns, the light entered through
the doors, the smoke escaped by an opening overhead and through loop -
holes (ὀπαῖα) just under the roof. The
cut, combined from different ancient representations, is designed to
show the back part of the μέγαρον in the
house of Odysseus, cf. plate III. for groundplan.—(2) the
women's apartment, behind the one just described, see
plate III. G. Pl., Od.
19.16.—(3) the housekeeper's apartment
in the upper story (ὑπερώιον), Od. 2.94.—(4) a
sleeping-apartment, Od.
11.374.—(5) in wider signif., in pl.,
house, Il.
1.396.
Georg Autenrieth. A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1891.
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