This volume is the first in a series providing detailed and up-to-date analyses of excavations and fieldwork conducted over more than a century at the Argive Heraion, site of a succession of religious buildings high above the plain of Argos. The book opens with an overview of the site's excavation history, including photographs taken during the investigations of the 1890s. The first few chapters fully reconstruct the classical temple from bottom to top, using the evidence of the existing foundations and the fragments of the architectural elements of the superstructure. These discussions are supported by an illustrated catalogue of the known architectural fragments, detailed and contextual site photographs, tables, actual-state drawings, and graphic reconstructions. The following chapters examine the style of the temple, in particular its blending of Peloponnesian and Attic features, to place the building within its historical, geographical, and political contexts. Four appendixes, including a note on the foot-module of the temple and a report on the scientific analysis of the temple's marbles, complete the volume. This work, the first monograph devoted solely to the Classical temple and the first concerning the site to be published in more than 50 years, will be the definitive source for scholars and students investigating the buildings of the Argive Heraion and a vital tool for those researching architectural trends of the period.
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The Argive Heraion, by Christopher Pfaff, is excellent because the detail is quite comprehensive. The author not only describes the general appearance of the temple, but even provides various cross-sections of such temple design as the tiles of the roof of the temple! It's a beautifully presented book, and I cannot wait for Part 2 which I believe is due for completion in 2008!
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LOCATED ROUGHLY eight kilometers northeast of Argos and five kilometers southeast of Mycenae, the site of the Argive Heraoin overlooks the Argive Plain from an isolated hill at the base of the south slope of Mount Euboia (Figs. 1-4). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sima blocks, preserved relief decoration, relieving margin, brown patina adheres, hard light gray limestone, fragment preserving part, lateral geison, toichobate blocks, pry cutting, empolion cuttings, crowning molding, surfaces calcined, geison blocks, porch metopes, outer orthostates, porch stylobate, hard poros, stylobate blocks, incrustation adheres, spoilt hole, crowning fascia, exterior epistyle, lateral sima, acanthus bud, weathering line Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Argive Heraion, Old Temple, Temple of Nemesis, Temple of Asklepios, Temple of the Athenians, Agia Triada, Athenian Acropolis, National Museum, North Stoa, Fast Building, Stoa of Zeus, Charles Waldstein, East Building, Mount Euboia, Roman Imperial New!
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LOCATED ROUGHLY eight kilometers northeast of Argos and five kilometers southeast of Mycenae, the site of the Argive Heraoin overlooks the Argive Plain from an isolated hill at the base of the south slope of Mount Euboia (Figs. 1-4). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sima blocks, preserved relief decoration, relieving margin, brown patina adheres, hard light gray limestone, fragment preserving part, lateral geison, toichobate blocks, pry cutting, empolion cuttings, crowning molding, surfaces calcined, geison blocks, porch metopes, outer orthostates, porch stylobate, hard poros, stylobate blocks, incrustation adheres, spoilt hole, crowning fascia, exterior epistyle, lateral sima, acanthus bud, weathering line Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Argive Heraion, Old Temple, Temple of Nemesis, Temple of Asklepios, Temple of the Athenians, Agia Triada, Athenian Acropolis, National Museum, North Stoa, Fast Building, Stoa of Zeus, Charles Waldstein, East Building, Mount Euboia, Roman Imperial New!
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- Placing the Gods: Sanctuaries and Sacred Space in Ancient Greece (Clarendon Paperbacks) by Susan E. Alcock in Front Matter
- Castles of the Morea (Gennadius Monograph) (Gennadeion Monographs) by Kevin Andrews in Front Matter
- Greek Sanctuaries by R. A. Tomlinson in Front Matter
- An Archaeology of Ancestors by Carla M. Antonaccio in Front Matter
- The Roman Empire (History Action Pack) by Chris Jordan on page 32
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