This volume presents a comprehensive investigation of one of the most unusual archaic Greek temples. The Temple of Athena at Assos, in modern Turkey, was built in a city that had no prior monumental tradition in either architecture or sculpture, so that the entire building constitutes an exercise in architectural invention. In this fully illustrated study, Bonna Daix Wescoat assembles for the first time a complete inventory of the architecture (documenting two phases
of construction), presents newly discovered epistyle reliefs and decorated metopes, proposes a new reconstruction of the building, and situates the Temple within the formative development of monumental architecture in Archaic Greece.
- ISBN10 0198143826
- ISBN13 9780198143826
- Publish Date 22 March 2012
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 October 2018
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 360
- Language English