The Architecture of Roman Temples

John Stamper is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame. Both an architect and architectural historian, he is the author of Chicago's North Michigan Avenue: Planning and Development, 1900-1930.

• Introduction: the authority of precedent; 1. Building the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus; 2. A new reconstruction of the temple; 3. Etrusco-Roman temples of the Early Republic; 4. Assimilation of Hellenistic architecture after the Punic Wars; 5. The Corinthian Order in the First Century B.C.; 6. Architecture and ceremony in the time of Pompey and Julius Caesar; 7. Rebuilding Rome in the time of Augustus; 8. Augustus and the Temple of Mars Ultor; 9. Temples and fora of the Flavian Emperors; 10. Trajan's Forum; 11. Hadrian's Pantheon; 12. Hadrian and the Antonines.

"Stamper aims at providing architects, planners, historians, and students with a more comprehensive discussion of the ancient temples of Rome than exists to date by interpreting the work of archaeologists through the eyes of an architectural historian (xiv). Stamper is successful in his aim and this is the real contribution of his book." --Bryn Mawr Classical Review