Origins of classical architecture : temples, orders and gifts to the gods in ancient Greece

Publication Data

• Title Origins of classical architecture : temples, orders and gifts to the gods in ancient Greece
• Author Mark Wilson Jones
• Publisher Yale University Press
• Publication date 2014
• Publication location New Haven
• Language English

Contents

Purpose and setting of the Greek temple
Formative developments
Questions of construction and the Doric genus
Questions of influence and the Aeolic capital
Questions of appearance and the Ionic genus
Questions of meaning and the Corinthian capital
Gifts to the gods
Triglyphs and tripods
Crucible
Questions answered and unanswered.

Topics

• Temples :: Greece
• Architecture :: Orders
• Symbolism in architecture :: Greece
• 016514963

Origins of classical architecture : temples, orders and gifts to the gods in ancient Greece by Mark Wilson Jones. ISBN 9780300182767. Published by Yale University Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.