Greek and Roman ArchitectureThis book provides a brief, clear account of the main developments in the history of the Greek, Etruscan and Roman architecture, from the earliest times to the foundation of Constantinople. It contains 135 drawings and 24 plates. Professor Robertson has produced a really great handbook; one that has become the standard general work, in English, or perhaps in any language, on its subject. It has not only accuracy, attention to detail and scholarship - these qualities we would expect - it has clarity, breadth of treatment and what can be called architectural soundness. |
Contents
Sources of Knowledge Materials and Methods I | 1 |
Minoan Crete Troy and preMycenaean Greece | 6 |
Mycenaean Greece and Homeric Architecture | 27 |
The Dark Ages Technical Terms The Earliest Temples | 37 |
Colosseum Rome restored plan | 59 |
The Earliest Doric and its Timber Prototypes | 62 |
SixthCentury Doric | 69 |
Archaic Ionic | 90 |
Temple Architecture of the Roman Republic | 205 |
Temple Architecture of the Roman Empire | 213 |
Roman Construction Arches Vaults and Domes | 231 |
Basilicas Theatres Amphitheatres and other Roman | 267 |
119 | 288 |
Greek and Roman Houses and Palaces | 297 |
123 | 298 |
127 | 304 |
FifthCentury Doric to the Outbreak of the Pelopon nesian War | 106 |
Ionic in the Fifth Century and Doric and Corinthian in the late Fifth and Fourth | 125 |
FourthCentury and Hellenistic Ionic and Hellenistic Doric and Corinthian | 147 |
Greek Theatres and other Buildings not Temples or Private Houses | 163 |
Greek and Roman TownPlanning Etruscan and Early Latin Architecture | 186 |
129 | 308 |
Chronological Tables | 322 |
133 | 376 |
| 395 | |
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abacus adyton angle antae archaic arches architect architecture architrave Asia Minor Athens Augustus Baalbek barrel-vault Basilica blocks Bouleuterion brick building built capitals cella central colonnade Corinthian cornice corridor court decoration Delphi dentils diameter dome door Doric Doric temple Dörpfeld early east echinus engaged columns entablature Erechtheum Etruria Etruscan façade feet fourth century B.C. frieze front Greece Greek hall Hellenistic Heraeum hexastyle houses inner columns inscriptions intercolumniation Ionic late later Leipzig marble megaron metopes moulding Mycenae Olympia Paestum palace Parthenon pediment perhaps peripteral peristyle piers pilasters podium Pompeii portico Priene probably pronaos Propylaea prostyle prostyle porch pteron rectangular restored Roman Rome roof round scaena scheme second century B.C. Selinus shaft side sixth century B.C. skene stone storey structure stylobate Syria Temple of Apollo Temple of Athena terracotta tetrastyle theatre tiles Tiryns Treasury triglyphs upper usually vaulting Vitruvius wooden
Popular passages
Page xxi - R., and O. Puchstein, Die griechischen Tempel in Unteritalien und Sicilien (Berlin 1899). Laviosa, C., "Le antefisse fittili di Taranto," Archeologia Classica 6 (1954) 217-50.