Hellenistic architecture and human action : a case of reciprocal influence / Annette Haug, Asja Müller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haug, Annette, author.

Müller, Asja, author.

Series:

Scales of transformation in prehistoric and archaic societies ; 10.

Scales of transformation ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Hellenistic.

Architecture and society--Greece--History.

Architecture and society.

Sacred space--Greece--History--To 1500.

Sacred space.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Sidestone Press, [2020]

Summary:

This book examines the mutual influence of architecture and human action during a key period of history: the Hellenistic age. During this era, the profound transformations in the Mediterranean's archaeological and historical record are detectable, pointing to a conscious intertwining of the physical (landscape, architecture, bodies) and social (practice) components of built space. Compiling the outcomes of a conference held in Kiel in 2018, the volume assembles contributions focusing on Hellenistic architecture as an action context, perceived in movement through built space. Sanctuaries, as a particularly coherent kind of built space featuring well-defined sets of architecture combined with ritual action, were chosen as the general frame for the analyses. The reciprocity between this sacred architecture and (religious) human action is traced through several layers starting from three specific case studies (Messene, Samothrace, Pella), extending to architectural modules, and finally encompassing overarching principles of design and use. As two additional case studies on caves and _agorai_ show, the far-reaching entanglement of architecture and human action was neither restricted to highly architecturalised nor sacred spaces, but is characteristic of Hellenistic built space in general.

Contents:

Intro

Preface of the editors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Hellenistic Architecture, Landscape, and Human Action

Three sanctuaries as case studies

The Sanctuary of Artemis Limnatis in Messene: Natural Setting and Human Action

Interstitial Space in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace

Sanctuary Disposition and Cult Practice: The Thesmophorion in Pella

The Usage of the Pronaos of Hellenistic Temples

Abstract

Constructing the Sublime: Landscape, Architecture and Human Encounter in Hellenistic Sanctuaries

Secluded or Entangled: Two Modes of Architecture-Landscape Design in Hellenistic Sanctuaries

Roman Awe for Greek Sanctuaries: Polybius and Livy Illustrate Roman Encounters with Greek Patrimony

Man-Made Space versus Natural Space in Greek Sacred Caves

The Upper Agora at Ephesos in Hellenistic Times: in Search of the 'State Market'

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ISBN:

90-8890-911-3

OCLC:

1183708716