The Propylaia To The Athenian Akropolis The Classical Building
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Author | : William Bell Dinsmoor |
Publisher | : ASCSA |
Total Pages | : 579 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Athens (Greece) |
ISBN | : 0876619413 |
211 illus, 9 b/w pls, 10 tbls & 9 foldout plans & drawings
Author | : Robin Francis Rhodes |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1995-06-30 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780521469814 |
Examines the several buildings making up the Acropolis as a group, or narrative.
Author | : William B. Dinsmoor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Athens (Greece) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Margaret M. Miles |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 615 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1119245532 |
A Companion to Greek Architecture provides an expansive overview of the topic, including design, engineering, and construction as well as theory, reception, and lasting impact. Covers both sacred and secular structures and complexes, with particular attention to architectural decoration, such as sculpture, interior design, floor mosaics, and wall painting Makes use of new research from computer-driven technologies, the study of inscriptions and archaeological evidence, and recently excavated buildings Brings together original scholarship from an esteemed group of archaeologists and art historians Presents the most up-to-date English language coverage of Greek architecture in several decades while also sketching out important areas and structures in need of further research
Author | : Jenifer Neils |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 505 |
Release | : 2021-02-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108484557 |
This book is a comprehensive introduction to ancient Athens, its topography, monuments, inhabitants, cultural institutions, religious rituals, and politics. Drawing from the newest scholarship on the city, this volume examines how the city was planned, how it functioned, and how it was transformed from a democratic polis into a Roman urbs.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2019-11-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 900441665X |
New Directions and Paradigms for the Study of Greek Architecture collects chapters by nearly three dozen scholars who describe recent discoveries, new theoretical frameworks, and applications of cutting-edge techniques in their architectural research.
Author | : John R. Senseney |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2011-03-14 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 113949726X |
This book examines the application of drawing in the design process of classical architecture, exploring how the tools and techniques of drawing developed for architecture subsequently shaped theories of vision and representations of the universe in science and philosophy. Building on recent scholarship that examines and reconstructs the design process of classical architecture, John R. Senseney focuses on technical drawing in the building trade as a model for the expression of visual order, showing that the techniques of ancient Greek drawing actively determined concepts about the world. He argues that the uniquely Greek innovations of graphic construction determined principles that shaped the massing, special qualities and refinements of buildings and the manner in which order itself was envisioned.
Author | : Jessica Paga |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2020-11-12 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 019008359X |
In 508/7 B.C.E., after years of chaos and uncertainty, the city of Athens was rocked by a momentous occurrence: the passage of a series of reforms that resulted in what has come to be known as the world's first democracy. Exactly how the Athenians did this is still a fundamental question 2,500 years later. The results of the reforms transformed the very nature of what it meant to be Athenian and their far-reaching effects would come to leave their mark on nearly every aspect of society, including the structures at which they prayed and in which they debated legislation. By attending to the built environment broadly, and monumental architecture specifically, this book investigates the built environment of ancient Athens precisely during this time, the late Archaic period (ca. 514/13 - 480/79 B.C.E.). It was these decades, filled with transition and disorder, when the Athenians transformed their political system from a tyranny to a democracy. Concurrent with the socio-political changes, they altered the physical landscape and undertook the monumental articulation of the city and countryside. Interpreting the nature of the fledgling democracy from a material standpoint, this book approaches the questions and problems of the early political system through the lens of buildings. The focus on monumental structures erected during this particular time period demonstrates how the built environment worked to facilitate the functioning of the nascent political regime. While Athenian democracy--its institutions, ideology, and capabilities--has been intensively studied, little attention has been paid to the intersection between built structures and the political system during its earliest phases. This book draws attention to a pivotal period of Athenian political history through the built environment, thereby exposing the richness of the material record and illustrating how it participated in the creation of a new democratic Athenian identity.
Author | : Jenifer Neils |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2005-09-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780521820936 |
Provides an overview of a classical monument interjected with the discoveries of modern scholarship.
Author | : William S. Bubelis |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2016-06-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0472119427 |
Students of ancient Athenian politics, governance, and religion have long stumbled over the rich evidence of inscriptions and literary texts that document the Athenians' stewardship of the wealth of the gods. Likewise, Athens was well known for devoting public energy and funds to all matters of ritual, ranging from the building of temples to major religious sacrifices. Yet, lacking any adequate account of how the Athenians organized that commitment, much less how it arose and developed, ancient historians and philologists alike have labored with only a paltry understanding of what was a central concern to the Athenians themselves. That deficit of knowledge, in turn, has constrained and diminished our grasp of other essential questions surrounding Athenian society and its history, such as the nature of political life in archaic Athens, and the forces underlying Athens' imperial finances. Hallowed Stewards closely examines those magistracies that were central to Athenian religious efforts, and which are best described as "sacred treasurers." Given the extensive but nevertheless fragmentary evidence now available to us, no catalog-like approach to these offices could properly encompass their details much less their wider historical significance. Inscriptions and oratory provide the bulk of the evidence for this project, along with the so-called Constitution of Athens attributed to Aristotle. Hallowed Stewards not only provides a wealth of detail concerning these hitherto badly understood offices, but also the larger diachronic framework within which they operated.