A Companion to Greek Architecture
A Companion to Greek Architecture
Editor/Author
Miles, Margaret M.
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Wiley
Single-User Purchase Price:
$195.00

Unlimited-User Purchase Price:
$292.50
ISBN: 978-1-44-433599-6
Category: Technology & Engineering - Architecture
Image Count:
216
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
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