Religious Architecture in Latium and Etruria, c. 900-500 BC

Charlotte R. Potts is the Sybille Haynes Associate Professor in Etruscan and Italic Archaeology and Art at the University of Oxford and the Woolley Fellow in Archaeology at Somerville College.

Well prepared (including a chronology), well written (explanatory, clear and jargon-light), an incisive re-examination of the hefty secondary literature, an engagement with theory and debates on urbanisation cultural contact/exchange, but always focused on the evidence (and on the people who used them as well as the buildings themselves), and well presented: two maps, 42 figures and 95 illustrations as plates, all clear.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsChronology1: Constructing HistoriesPart 1: From Huts to Temples2: The First Religious Buildings: 'Sacred Huts'3: The Architecture of Early Shrines and Temples4: The Decoration of Early Shrines and TemplesPart 2: Religious Monumentality in Context5: Ritual Activation: Altars, Cult Statues, and Temples6: Ritual Topographies: Landscapes, Cityscapes, and Temples7: Accounting for Religious Monumentality8: ConclusionsAppendix: The Archaic Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus in RomeCatalogueBibliographyIndex