Description
| Product ID: | 9781009260107 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Making of the Doric Temple |
| Subtitle: | Architecture, Religion, and Social Change in Archaic Greece |
| Authors: | Author: Gabriel Zuchtriegel |
| Page Count: | 350 |
| Subjects: | History of art, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, History of architecture, Ancient history, Archaeology by period / region, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Cultural studies, History of architecture, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, History of Western philosophy, Cultural studies, Ancient Greece |
| Description: | On the basis of old and new archaeological data, some which presented for the first time, the author argues that Doric architecture originated in a disruptive shift in urbanism, land use, and colonization in Archaic Greece and has nothing to do with a wood-to-stone evolution, as maintained in the past. In this volume, Gabriel Zuchtriegel revisits the idea of Doric architecture as the paradigm of architectural and artistic evolutionism. Bringing together old and new archaeological data, some for the first time, he posits that Doric architecture has little to do with a wood-to-stone evolution. Rather, he argues, it originated in tandem with a disruptive shift in urbanism, land use, and colonization in Archaic Greece. Zuchtriegel presents momentous architectural change as part of a broader transformation that involved religion, politics, economics, and philosophy. As Greek elites colonized, explored, and mapped the Mediterranean, they sought a new home for the gods in the changing landscapes of the sixth-century BC Greek world. Doric architecture provided an answer to this challenge, as becomes evident from parallel developments in architecture, art, land division, urban planning, athletics, warfare, and cosmology. Building on recent developments in geography, gender, and postcolonial studies, this volume offers a radically new interpretation of architecture and society in Archaic Greece. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-04-20 |
