The Making of the Doric Temple
The Making of the Doric Temple

Author: Gabriel Zuchtriegel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-02-28

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1009260146

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In this volume, Gabriel Zuchtriegel revisits the idea of Doric architecture as the paradigm of architectural and artistic evolutionism. Bringing together old and new archaeological data, some for the first time, he posits that Doric architecture has little to do with a wood-to-stone evolution. Rather, he argues, it originated in tandem with a disruptive shift in urbanism, land use, and colonization in Archaic Greece. Zuchtriegel presents momentous architectural change as part of a broader transformation that involved religion, politics, economics, and philosophy. As Greek elites colonized, explored, and mapped the Mediterranean, they sought a new home for the gods in the changing landscapes of the sixth-century BC Greek world. Doric architecture provided an answer to this challenge, as becomes evident from parallel developments in architecture, art, land division, urban planning, athletics, warfare, and cosmology. Building on recent developments in geography, gender, and postcolonial studies, this volume offers a radically new interpretation of architecture and society in Archaic Greece.

Magna Graecia
Magna Graecia

Author: Michael J. Bennett

Publisher: Hudson Hills

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9780940717718

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This magnificent book presents 82 masterpieces of Greek vase painting and sculpture in terrocotta, stone, and bronze from the eight great museum collections of the South of Italy and Sicily. 170 colour illustrations

Greek Sanctuaries and Temple Architecture
Greek Sanctuaries and Temple Architecture

Author: Mary Emerson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-01-25

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1472575296

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Assuming no prior knowledge, this book introduces the reader to a selection of sites and temples, exploring them in detail and explaining all technical terms along the way. Intended for college-level students and the interested general reader, this book aims to equip the student of Greek architecture for further study, and can also serve as a handbook for visitors to the sanctuaries. The book covers many of the most popular sites, including Delphi, Olympia and the Athenian Acropolis. In this second edition there are new chapters on Western Greece, covering the site of Paestum in Magna Graecia (South Italy), and the unique temple of Olympian Zeus in Acragas, Sicily. The book also offers a concise account of the evolution of Greek architecture, explores aesthetic ideas underlying Greek architectural design, and gives consideration to specific buildings in their social and religious context. This second edition has expanded the discussion of the most important temples and lays emphasis on architectural sculpture as part of the meaning of the whole building. Along with an updated bibliography and a glossary, an abundance of plans, photos and drawings helps clarify the text.

Il Santuario Di Santa Venera a Paestum
Il Santuario Di Santa Venera a Paestum

Author: John Griffiths Pedley

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 568

ISBN-13: 9780472108992

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Examines almost three thousand terracottas found in archaeological excavations at the sanctuary of Santa Venera at Paestum

The Temple of Athena at Assos
The Temple of Athena at Assos

Author: Bonna D. Wescoat

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2012-03-22

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0198143826

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A 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.

KOINE
KOINE

Author: Derek Counts

Publisher: Oxbow Books

Published: 2009-11-23

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1782973648

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The 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.

Stephanos
Stephanos

Author: Kim J. Hartswick

Publisher: UPenn Museum of Archaeology

Published: 1998-01-29

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780924171529

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The studies collected here are presented to Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway to honor an unusually inspiring and energetic teacher, a dedicated and prolific scholar, and a profoundly humane and caring human being. Bruni's passion for Greek sculpture, her constantly inquiring mind, and her bold questioning of long-accepted positions have sparked many stimulating discussions, often planting the germ of an idea to which students return in their own work. The themes here discussed reflect many of Bruni's scholarly interests. Most are on sculptural topics, but numismatics, architecture, and Iron Age Cyprus are also represented. Discussions focus on interpretations of technique and style, consider single sculptures, groups, and whole monuments, the well known as well as the unusual. University Museum Monograph, 100