Author : Bonna D. Wescoat
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 31,52 MB
Release : 2012-03-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0198143826
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.
Author : Bonna Daix Wescoat
Publisher :
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 36,93 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : Bonna Daix Wescoat
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 15,67 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : Bonna D. Wescoat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 25,61 MB
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 110737829X
In 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 : Bonna Daix Wescoat
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Page : pages
File Size : 22,98 MB
Release : 1983
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Author : Barbara A. Barletta
Publisher : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 40,87 MB
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1621390209
The Temple of Athena at Sounion has long been recognized as one of the most unusual buildings in the architectural history of Greece. Its plan, with columns uniquely on the front and only one side, is unparalleled in the Greek world. Excavations of the temple and other buildings there, however, were complicated by the fact that many architectural pieces from the site had been reused in a Roman temple in the Athenian Agora. Here, Barletta provides a fascinating examination of the early excavations at Sounion, the debate over who was worshipped at the so-called Small Temple within the sanctuary, the varied architectural influences on the Temple of Athena, and the later use of its architectural pieces in the Athenian Agora. Building on unpublished work by William B. Dinsmoor Jr. and Homer A. Thompson, this study represents the first comprehensive view of the temple and its sanctuary.
Author : Robin Francis Rhodes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,73 MB
Release : 1995-06-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780521469814
Examines the several buildings making up the Acropolis as a group, or narrative.
Author : Derek Counts
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,36 MB
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1782973664
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.
Author : Vincent Scully
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 13,91 MB
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1595341773
When The Earth, the Temple, and the Gods first appeared in 1962, it was hailed by the critics for it erudition, historical imagination and boldness. Subsequently, this comprehensive study of Greek temples and site-planning has been widely accepted as a landmark of architectural history, for it offers an inspired and arresting insight into nature and function of Greek sacred architecture. Vincent Scully, one of America's most brilliant and articulate scholars, understands the temples as physical embodiment of the gods in landscapes that had for the Greeks divine attributes and sacred connotations. He explores the meanings inherent in the calculated interaction between man-made sculptural forces and the natural landscape, and he relates this interaction to our understanding of Greek culture from the pre-Greek Aegean to the Hellenistic period. Years of research and travel were devoted to The Earth, the Temple, and the Gods. Scores of sites were restudied on the spot, including many lesser-known sanctuaries throughout the Hellenic world. The study includes reconstruction drawings, plans, and maps along with its richly illustrated, detailed discussions of major sites.
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 10,58 MB
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ISBN : 0192650459
