Companion to Greek Architecture

Margaret M. Miles is Professor of Art History and Classics at the University of California–Irvine, USA. She was the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Classical Studies at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2008–2014. She is the author of a block-by-block study of the Temple of Nemesis at Rhamnous (Hesperia 1989); a volume in the Agora excavation series, Agora XXXI: The City Eleusinion (1998); Art as Plunder: The Ancient Origins of Debate about Cultural Property (2008); and Editor of Cleopatra: A Sphinx Revisited (2011) and Autopsy in Athens – Recent Archaeological Research in Athens and Attica (2015). She is currently writing a book on fifth-century Greek religious architecture.

• Preface viiiList of Illustrations ixList of Maps xixNotes on Contributors xxIntroduction xxivPart I Invention, Design, and Construction 11 Landscape and Setting 3Betsey A. Robinson2 Early Greek Temples 15Alexander Mazarakis Ainian3 Monumentality and Foreign Influence in Early Greek Temples 31†Barbara A. Barletta4 Origins and Design of Terracotta Roofs in the Seventh Century bce 46Philip Sapirstein5 The Greek East: Temples and Engineering 60John R. Senseney6 The Greek West: Temples and their Decoration 75Clemente Marconi7 The Use of Geometry by Ancient Greek Architects 92Rocco Leonardis8 How Buildings Were Constructed 105Nancy L. KleinPart II Temples and Sanctuaries 1199 “Internationalism” in Architecture: Olympia 121Nancy L. Klein10 Prestige in Greek Sanctuaries: Delphi 135Michael Scott11 The Periclean Acropolis 147Robin F. Rhodes12 Color and Carving: Architectural Decoration in Mainland Greece 164Jenifer Neils13 Attic Sanctuaries 178Jessica Paga14 Inscribing Construction: The Financing and Administration of Public Building in Greek Sanctuaries 194Robert K. Pitt15 The Interiors of Greek Temples 206Margaret M. Miles16 Scale, Architects, and Architectural Theory 223John R. SenseneyPart III Civic Space 23917 Urban Planning and Infrastructure 241Betsey A. Robinson18 Protection and Trade: Girding the City 254Spencer Pope19 The Architecture of Greek Houses 273Barbara Tsakirgis20 Hellenistic Royal Palaces 288Stella G. Miller21 The Greek Agora 300John McK. Camp II22 Athletics: Stadia, Gymnasia, Palaistrai, and Hippodromes 314David Gilman Romano23 Greek Baths 328Sandra K. Lucore24 Bouleuteria and Odeia 342John McK. Camp II25 The Greek Theater 360Jessica Paga26 Commemorating the Dead: Grave Markers, Tombs, and Tomb Paintings, 400–30 bce 374Olga PalagiaPart IV Reception 39127 The Spread of Greek Architecture: Labraunda 393Gretchen Umholtz28 Pergamon and Pergamene Influence 406Kristen Seaman29 New Directions in Hellenistic Sanctuaries 424Bonna D. Wescoat30 Three Seaside Wonders: Pharos, Mausoleum and Colossus 440Ingrid D. Rowland31 From Hellenistic to Roman Architecture 454Rhys F. Townsend32 Hellenistic Architecture in Italy: Consuetudo Italica 470Thomas Noble Howe33 French Architectural Thought and the Idea of Greece 487Christopher Drew Armstrong34 The Reception of Greek Architecture in Eighteenth]Century Britain 509Jason M. Kelly35 Ancient Ruins and Their Preservation: The Case Study of the Parthenon’s East Porch 526Lena LambrinouGlossary 546Index 553