RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE OMCA C

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-19-872207-6
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 221 mm x 286 mm, Gewicht: 1050 g

Religious Architecture in Latium and Etruria c. 900-500 BC presents the first comprehensive treatment of cult buildings in western central Italy from the Iron Age to the Archaic Period. By analysing the archaeological evidence for the form of early religious buildings and their role in ancient communities, it reconstructs a detailed history of early Latial and Etruscan religious architecture that brings together the buildings and the people who used them.

The first part of the study examines the processes by which religious buildings changed from huts and shrines to monumental temples, and explores apparent differences between these processes in Latium and Etruria. The second part analyses the broader architectural, religious, and topographical contexts of the first Etrusco-Italic temples alongside possible rationales for their introduction. The result is a new and extensive account of when, where, and why monumental cult buildings became features of early central Italic society and set precedents for the great temples of republican Rome.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Potts

Potts, Charlotte R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen Sakralbauten
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie: Theorie und Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Klassische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen: Religiöse Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Klassisch (Griechisch & Römisch)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgements

- List of Illustrations

- Abbreviations

- Chronology

- 1: Constructing Histories

- Part 1: From Huts to Temples

- 2: The First Religious Buildings: 'Sacred Huts'

- 3: The Architecture of Early Shrines and Temples

- 4: The Decoration of Early Shrines and Temples

- Part 2: Religious Monumentality in Context

- 5: Ritual Activation: Altars, Cult Statues, and Temples

- 6: Ritual Topographies: Landscapes, Cityscapes, and Temples

- 7: Accounting for Religious Monumentality

- 8: Conclusions

- Appendix: The Archaic Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus in Rome

- Catalogue

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Charlotte R. Potts is the Sybille Haynes Lecturer in Etruscan and Italic Archaeology and Art at the University of Oxford and the Woolley Fellow in Archaeology at Somerville College.