The Making of the Doric Temple
Architecture, Religion, and Social Change in Archaic Greece
- Author: Gabriel Zuchtriegel, Archaeological Park of Pompeii, Italy
- Date Published: April 2023
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009260107
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In this volume, Gabriel Zuchtriegel revisits the idea of Doric architecture as the paradigm of architectural and artistic evolutionism. Bringing together old and new archaeological data, some for the first time, he posits that Doric architecture has little to do with a wood-to-stone evolution. Rather, he argues, it originated in tandem with a disruptive shift in urbanism, land use, and colonization in Archaic Greece. Zuchtriegel presents momentous architectural change as part of a broader transformation that involved religion, politics, economics, and philosophy. As Greek elites colonized, explored, and mapped the Mediterranean, they sought a new home for the gods in the changing landscapes of the sixth-century BC Greek world. Doric architecture provided an answer to this challenge, as becomes evident from parallel developments in architecture, art, land division, urban planning, athletics, warfare, and cosmology. Building on recent developments in geography, gender, and postcolonial studies, this volume offers a radically new interpretation of architecture and society in Archaic Greece.
Read more- Takes a new look on Doric architecture, a central topic in the education of classicists and architects
- Questions the evolutionary narrative of Doric architecture and proposes a social-historical interpretation of the new architectural order
- Contains new excavation data from Foce Sele near ancient Paestum, including a new reconstruction of the first Hera temple on the site
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'This excellent, thought-provoking book is very different from the many traditional books about Greek architecture that focus on the Doric style and its evolution in purely architectural terms. … The author provides interesting discussion of how and why the Doric temple, set within a sanctuary, came to define religious space and at the same time shift the focus from traditional religious beliefs in gods as spiritual forces that dwelled in various environments in nature to anthropomorphic temple cult images in urban contexts. Well written and rich in ideas and approaches, this is a book for scholars. … Essential.' J. Pollini, Choice
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- Date Published: April 2023
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009260107
- length: 350 pages
- dimensions: 260 x 182 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.7kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: explaining architectural change
2. Korkyra: contextualizing early Doric architecture
3. Foce del Sele: mythical and colonial landscapes
4. Selinous: urbanizations and temple building
5. Delphi: architecture and panhellenism.
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