The Temple of Athena at Assos / Bonna Daix Wescoat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wescoat, Bonna D.

Series:

Oxford monographs on classical archaeology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Temple of Athena (Assos (Extinct city)).

Temples, Greek--Turkey--Assos (Extinct city).

Temples, Greek.

Sculpture--Turkey--Assos (Extinct city).

Sculpture.

Buildings--Turkey--Assos (Extinct city).

Buildings.

Turkey--Assos (Extinct city).

Turkey--Antiquities.

Turkey.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 318 pages, 72 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some folded), plans, map ; 28 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. History of the building, its early visitors, and its excavation

3. Building materials and technical aspects of construction

4. Description and reconstruction of the original building

5. Major repairs

6. Hellenistic renovations

7. The sculpture

8. Arrangement of the sculpture

9. Significance of the temple within the development of archaic architecture and architectural decoration.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780198143826

0198143826

OCLC:

793078358