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.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• List of Illustrations
• List of Maps
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• Invention, Design, and Construction
• Landscape and Setting
• Early Greek Temples
• Monumentality and Foreign Influence in Early Greek Temples
• Origins and Design of Terracotta Roofs in the Seventh Century bce
• The Greek East: Temples and Engineering
• The Greek West: Temples and their Decoration
• The Use of Geometry by Ancient Greek Architects
• How Buildings Were Constructed
• Temples and Sanctuaries
• “Internationalism” in Architecture: Olympia
• Prestige in Greek Sanctuaries: Delphi
• The Periclean Acropolis
• Color and Carving: Architectural Decoration in Mainland Greece
• Attic Sanctuaries
• Inscribing Construction: The Financing and Administration of Public Building in Greek Sanctuaries
• The Interiors of Greek Temples
• Scale, Architects, and Architectural Theory
• Civic Space
• Urban Planning and Infrastructure
• Protection and Trade: Girding the City
• The Architecture of Greek Houses
• Hellenistic Royal Palaces
• The Greek Agora
• Athletics: Stadia, Gymnasia, Palaistrai, and Hippodromes
• Greek Baths
• Bouleuteria and Odeia
• Appendix: Recently Excavated and/or Published Bouleuteria/Odeia
• The Greek Theater
• Commemorating the Dead: Grave Markers, Tombs, and Tomb Paintings, 400–30 bce
• Reception
• The Spread of Greek Architecture: Labraunda
• Pergamon and Pergamene Influence
• New Directions in Hellenistic Sanctuaries
• Three Seaside Wonders: Pharos, Mausoleum and Colossus
• From Hellenistic to Roman Architecture
• Hellenistic Architecture in Italy: Consuetudo Italica
• French Architectural Thought and the Idea of Greece
• The Reception of Greek Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain
• Ancient Ruins and Their Preservation: The Case Study of the Parthenon's East Porch
• Glossary
• Back Matter