A Companion to Greek Architecture

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Margaret M. Miles
John Wiley & Sons, May 5, 2020 - Literary Criticism - 613 pages

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
 

Contents

Early Greek Temples 15
15
Monumentality and Foreign Influence in Early Greek Temples
31
Origins and Design of Terracotta Roofs in the Seventh Century BCE
46
Temples and Engineering
60
Temples and their Decoration
75
The Use of Geometry by Ancient Greek Architects
92
How Buildings Were Constructed
105
Temples and Sanctuaries
119
Stadia Gymnasia Palaistrai and Hippodromes
314
Greek Baths
328
Bouleuteria and Odeia
342
The Greek Theater
360
Grave Markers Tombs
374
Reception
391
Pergamon and Pergamene Influence
406
New Directions in Hellenistic Sanctuaries
424

Delphi
135
Architectural Decoration in Mainland Greece
164
Attic Sanctuaries
178
The Financing and Administration of Public
194
Scale Architects and Architectural Theory
223
Civic Space
239
Girding the City
254
The Architecture of Greek Houses
273
Hellenistic Royal Palaces
288
Pharos Mausoleum and Colossus
440
From Hellenistic to Roman Architecture
454
Consuetudo Italica
470
French Architectural Thought and the Idea of Greece
487
The Reception of Greek Architecture in EighteenthCentury Britain
509
The Case Study of the Parthenons East Porch
526
Glossary
546
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About the author (2020)

Margaret M. Miles is Professor of Art History and Classics at the University of California Irvine, USA. She was the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Classical Studies at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2008 2014. She is the author of a block-by-block study of the Temple of Nemesis at Rhamnous (Hesperia 1989); a volume in the Agora excavation series, Agora XXXI: The City Eleusinion (1998); Art as Plunder: The Ancient Origins of Debate about Cultural Property (2008); and Editor of Cleopatra: A Sphinx Revisited (2011) and Autopsy in Athens Recent Archaeological Research in Athens and Attica (2015). She is currently writing a book on fifth-century Greek religious architecture.

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