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Architectural Networks in the North Aegean
Thasos, Samothrace, and the Formation of Hellenistic Design
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
1 307 kr
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During the Hellenistic period, the North Aegean Sea was a dynamic and diverse area, linked by robust trading networks and sometimes precarious political allegiances. The islands of Thasos, Samothrace, and Lesbos in particular played crucial roles in their position between Anatolia, Macedonia, Thrace, and Greece. Migration, trade, and politics—not to mention the specifics of sites and climate—shaped the development of architecture, which pioneered many innovations that subsequently spread across the Mediterranean.Employing the idea of networks to effectively describe the interconnectedness of design, materials, technology, religion, and politics, the contributors to this volume establish the need to understand this important region holistically and on its own terms. Taking a close look at major buildings and monuments—while considering technique, design, and decoration as elements of a vigorous web—this volume offers important insights about the area’s significance in the history of Hellenistic architecture, including lasting innovations in architectural illusion, Ionic entablature, and groundbreaking uses of marble and plaster. From the North Aegean, such principles and tactics were transmitted to the rest of the Hellenistic world, influencing Roman architecture and, from there, Western architectural history.
Del 9 - Samothrace
Monuments of the Eastern Hill (two-volume set)
Two volumes: 'Plates' and 'Text'
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
2 854 kr
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In this volume, the key monuments that form the Theatral Complex, including the Theatral Circle, the Fieldstone Building with its masonry style plaster interior, the marble Doric hexastyle Dedication of Philip III and Alexander IV, the elegant Ionic Porch later attached to the western side of the Dedication, and the remains of dozens of bronze statues that originally framed the Theatral Circle, are presented in their archaeological, architectural, and historical contexts. The potential significance of the Complex within the mystery cult, both as the place that initially gave shape to the group of pilgrims undergoing initiation, and as the place where new initiates ultimately departed the Sanctuary, accords the Theatral Complex on the Eastern Hill a central place in the history of ancient Greek sacred space. Actual-state and reconstruction drawings; photographs; and a catalogue of the small finds, including pottery, lamps, terracotta figurines, coins, metal objects, inscriptions, stone objects, and glass, accompany the text.
Architecture of the Sacred
Space, Ritual, and Experience from Classical Greece to Byzantium
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
523 kr
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In this book, a distinguished team of authors explores the way space, place, architecture, and ritual interact to construct sacred experience in the historical cultures of the eastern Mediterranean. Essays address fundamental issues and features that enable buildings to perform as spiritually transformative spaces in ancient Greek, Roman, Jewish, early Christian, and Byzantine civilizations. Collectively they demonstrate the multiple ways in which works of architecture and their settings were active agents in the ritual process. Architecture did not merely host events; rather, it magnified and elevated them, interacting with rituals facilitating the construction of ceremony. This book examines comparatively the ways in which ideas and situations generated by the interaction of place, built environment, ritual action, and memory contributed to the cultural formulation of the sacred experience in different religious faiths.
485 kr
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Imag(in)ing Samothrace: From Homer to the HoloLens explores poetic and visual evocations of the northern Aegean island of Samothrace and its cult of the Great Gods over two and a half millennia. Produced to accompany an exhibition at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, this bilingual catalogue brings together objects from the 15th to the 21st century to chronicle how artists expressed their physical, emotional, and intellectual encounters with the island.Highlights included rare Renaissance drawings of Samothracian antiquities by the antiquarian Cyriacus of Ancona, a 15th-century map of the island by Cristoforo Buondelmonti, 17th–19th century maps of the island, archaeological photographs by Wilhelm Burger, architectural reconstruction drawings by John Kurtich, postwar photographs by Spiros Meletzis, paintings by the mid-20th-century Greek artists Paris Prekas and Polykleitos Rengos, and a transcendent 21st-century painting of the Fonias waterfall by Maria Filopoulou. The work of American Excavations Samothrace and its partners is featured throughout, including innovative approaches to 3D digital modeling and spectacular new visualizations.