Temple Of Athena At Assos
By: Wescoat, Bonna Daix (Author).
Oxford University Press. Published: 31/05/2011. Audience Guide: General (US: Trade).
Hardback. Sourced from U.S.A.
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. Item Details
ISBN10/13: 0198143826/9780198143826
TITLE: Temple of Athena at Assos, The
CONTRIBUTORS: Wescoat, Bonna Daix (Author)
IMPRINT: Oxford University Press
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press
FORMAT: Hardback
PUBLICATION DATE: 31/05/2011
SUBJECT: Art & Design, History, History, History - Pre 20th C, Archaeology, World History
DIMENSIONS (Width x Height): 219mm x 276mm
PAGES: 320
AUDIENCE GUIDE: General (US: Trade)
ILLUSTRATIONS: 111 photographs, 101 figures, 15 fold-out plans
CONTENTS: I. 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; TABLES; PLATES; FIGURES
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