The Temple of Athena at Assos

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-814382-6
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 221 mm x 279 mm, Gewicht: 1520 g

Reihe: Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology

This volume presents a comprehensive investigation of one of the most unusual archaic Greek temples. The Temple of Athena at Assos, in modern Turkey, was built in a city that had no prior monumental tradition in either architecture or sculpture, so that the entire building constitutes an exercise in architectural invention. In this fully illustrated study, Bonna Daix Wescoat assembles for the first time a complete inventory of the architecture (documenting two phases
of construction), presents newly discovered epistyle reliefs and decorated metopes, proposes a new reconstruction of the building, and situates the Temple within the formative development of monumental architecture in Archaic Greece.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wescoat, Bonna Daix

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Klassische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Klassisch (Griechisch & Römisch)

Über Autor(innen)

Bonna Daix Wescoat is Associate Professor of Art History at Emory University.