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Author: Bonna D. Wescoat
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2012-03-22
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 0198143826
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fully illustrated study of the Doric Temple of Athena at Assos, in modern Turkey. Bonna Daix Wescoat presents a complete inventory of the architecture and ornament, proposes a new reconstruction of the building, and situates the Temple within the formative development of monumental architecture in Archaic Greece.
Author: Bonna D. Wescoat
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-10-13
Total Pages: 467
ISBN-13: 110737829X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, a distinguished team of authors explores the way space, place, architecture, and ritual interact to construct sacred experience in the historical cultures of the eastern Mediterranean. Essays address fundamental issues and features that enable buildings to perform as spiritually transformative spaces in ancient Greek, Roman, Jewish, early Christian, and Byzantine civilizations. Collectively they demonstrate the multiple ways in which works of architecture and their settings were active agents in the ritual process. Architecture did not merely host events; rather, it magnified and elevated them, interacting with rituals facilitating the construction of ceremony. This book examines comparatively the ways in which ideas and situations generated by the interaction of place, built environment, ritual action, and memory contributed to the cultural formulation of the sacred experience in different religious faiths.
Author: Derek Counts
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2009-11-23
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1782973664
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford English Dictionary defines koine as 'a set of cultural or other attributes common to various groups' . This volume merges an academic career over a half century in breadth and scope with an editorial vision that brings together a chorus of scholarly contributions echoing the core principles of R. Ross Holloways own unique perspective on ancient Mediterranean studies. Through broadly conceived themes, the four individual sections of this volume (I. A View of Classical Art: Iconography in Context; II. Crossroads of the Mediterranean: Cultural Entanglements Across the Connecting Sea; III. Coins as Culture: Art and Coinage from Sicily; and IV. Discovery and Discourse, Archaeology and Interpretation) are an attempt to capture the many and varied trajectories of thought that have marked his career and serve as testimony to the significance of his research. The twenty-four papers (plus four introductory essays to the individual sections, biographical sketch and main introduction) contain recent research on subjects ranging from the Kleophrades Painter to the Black Sea, Sicilian Coinage and archaeology in modern Rome.
Author: Charlotte Rose Potts
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0198722079
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReligious Architecture in Latium and Etruria, c. 900-500 BC presents the first comprehensive treatment of cult buildings in western central Italy from the Iron Age to the Archaic Period. By analysing the archaeological evidence for the form of early religious buildings and their role in ancient communities, it reconstructs a detailed history of early Latial and Etruscan religious architecture that brings together the buildings and the people whoused them.
Author: Joseph Thatcher Clarke
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-05-30
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 3385481384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1882.
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 496
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marie R. Garesché
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 284
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Verity Platt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-04-20
Total Pages: 737
ISBN-13: 110716236X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book reveals how 'marginal' aspects of Graeco-Roman art play a fundamental role in shaping and interrogating ancient and modern visual culture.
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 490
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Greta Hawes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017-06-02
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 0191062200
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPolybius boldly declared that 'now that all places have become accessible by land or sea, it is no longer appropriate to use poets and writers of myth as witnesses of the unknown' (4.40.2). And yet, in reality, the significance of myth did not diminish as the borders of the known world expanded. Storytelling was always an inextricable part of how the ancient Greeks understood their environment; mythic maps existed alongside new, more concrete, methods of charting the contours of the earth. Specific landscape features acted as repositories of myth and spurred their retelling; myths, in turn, shaped and gave sense to natural and built environments, and were crucial to the conceptual resonances of places both unknown and known. This volume brings together contributions from leading scholars of Greek myth, literature, history, and archaeology to examine the myriad intricate ways in which ancient Greek myth interacted with the physical and conceptual landscapes of antiquity. The diverse range of approaches and topics highlights in particular the plurality and pervasiveness of such interactions. The collection as a whole sheds new light on the central importance of storytelling in Greek conceptions of space.
