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The Propylaia to the Athenian Akropolis: The classical building

By: William Bell Dinsmoor,William B. Dinsmoor

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The Propylaia to the Athenian Akropolis: The classical building

By: William Bell Dinsmoor,William B. Dinsmoor

211 illus, 9 b/w pls, 10 tbls & 9 foldout plans & drawings

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0876619413

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9780876619414

Ancient Athenian Building Methods

By: John McK. Camp (II),William B. Dinsmoor

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Ancient Athenian Building Methods

By: John McK. Camp (II),William B. Dinsmoor

While this booklet is illustrated solely with materials from the Athenian Agora, it also provides a concise introduction to building styles and techniques that will be useful to anyone interested in ancient Greek architecture. From financing to tools, and from mason's marks to the clamps that held blocks together, no detail is omitted in this well-illustrated text. The different parts of monumental buildings, from the foundations to the tile roofs, are all discussed with clear drawings to indicate how the whole was constructed.

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0876616260

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Greek Art and Aesthetics in the Fourth Century B.C.

By: William A. P. Childs

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Greek Art and Aesthetics in the Fourth Century B.C.

By: William A. P. Childs

Greek Art and Aesthetics in the Fourth Century B.C. analyzes the broad character of art produced during this period, providing in-depth analysis of and commentary on many of its most notable examples of sculpture and painting. Taking into consideration developments in style and subject matter, and elucidating political, religious, and intellectual context, William A. P. Childs argues that Greek art in this era was a natural outgrowth of the high classical period and focused on developing the rudiments of individual expression that became the hallmark of the classical in the fifth century. As Childs shows, in many respects the art of this period corresponds with the philosophical inquiry by Plato and his contemporaries into the nature of art and speaks to the contemporaneous sense of insecurity and renewed religious devotion. Delving into formal and iconographic developments in sculpture and painting, Childs examines how the sensitive, expressive quality of these works seamlessly links the classical and Hellenistic periods, with no appreciable rupture in the continuous exploration of the human condition. Another overarching theme concerns the nature of “style as a concept of expression,” an issue that becomes more important given the increasingly multiple styles and functions of fourth-century Greek art. Childs also shows how the color and form of works suggested the unseen and revealed the profound character of individuals and the physical world.

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400

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Princeton University Press

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0691176469

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9780691176468

A Guide to the Palace of Nestor

Mycenaean Sites in Its Environs and the Chora Museum

By: Carl William Blegen,Marion Rawson,Jack L. Davis,Cynthia W. Shelmerdine

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A Guide to the Palace of Nestor

Mycenaean Sites in Its Environs and the Chora Museum

By: Carl William Blegen,Marion Rawson,Jack L. Davis,Cynthia W. Shelmerdine

In spring 1939, as the prospect of war loomed, a joint Greek-American archaeological expedition began excavation on the hill of Epano Englianos, high above the modern town of Pylos in southwest Greece. Almost immediately more than 600 tablets bearing inscriptions in Linear B script were uncovered, as well as stone walls, fragments of frescoes, and stucco floors. The discoveries were kept secret during the war years and it was only in 1952 that the project could return to uncover, over 15 seasons, the Mycenaean building now know as the Palace of Nestor. This beautifully illustrated color guide surveys the buildings and objects discovered and reconstructs life in the citadel and its associated tombs. It also describes the surrounding landscape, using evidence uncovered by the Pylos Regional Archaeology Project which surveyed the wider area around the palace between 1992 and 1995.

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0876616406

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Hallowed Stewards

Solon and the Sacred Treasurers of Ancient Athens

By: William S. Bubelis

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Hallowed Stewards

Solon and the Sacred Treasurers of Ancient Athens

By: William S. Bubelis

Students of ancient Athenian politics, governance, and religion have long stumbled over the rich evidence of inscriptions and literary texts that document the Athenians' stewardship of the wealth of the gods. Likewise, Athens was well known for devoting public energy and funds to all matters of ritual, ranging from the building of temples to major religious sacrifices. Yet, lacking any adequate account of how the Athenians organized that commitment, much less how it arose and developed, ancient historians and philologists alike have labored with only a paltry understanding of what was a central concern to the Athenians themselves. That deficit of knowledge, in turn, has constrained and diminished our grasp of other essential questions surrounding Athenian society and its history, such as the nature of political life in archaic Athens, and the forces underlying Athens' imperial finances. Hallowed Stewards closely examines those magistracies that were central to Athenian religious efforts, and which are best described as "sacred treasurers." Given the extensive but nevertheless fragmentary evidence now available to us, no catalog-like approach to these offices could properly encompass their details much less their wider historical significance. Inscriptions and oratory provide the bulk of the evidence for this project, along with the so-called Constitution of Athens attributed to Aristotle. Hallowed Stewards not only provides a wealth of detail concerning these hitherto badly understood offices, but also the larger diachronic framework within which they operated.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472119427

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9780472119424

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The Propylaia to the Athenian Akropolis: The classical building

The Propylaia to the Athenian Akropolis: The classical building

Ancient Athenian Building Methods

Ancient Athenian Building Methods

Greek Art and Aesthetics in the Fourth Century B.C.

Greek Art and Aesthetics in the Fourth Century B.C.

A Guide to the Palace of Nestor

A Guide to the Palace of Nestor

Hallowed Stewards

Hallowed Stewards

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