Listening to the Stones: Essays on Architecture and Function in Ancient Greek Sanctuaries in Honour of Richard Alan Tomlinson

Elena C. Partida, Barbara Schmidt-Dounas, Elena C. Partida, Barbara Schmidt-Dounas

• Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781789690873
• eBook ISBN: 9781789690880
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: Social Sciences

Listening to the Stones: Essays on Architecture and Function in Ancient Greek Sanctuaries in Honour of Richard Alan Tomlinson deals with a range of topics that relate to the broad scope of Richard Tomlinson's archaeological quests and echoes his own methodology in research. Innovative masonry modes, matters of style and orders, proportions and design principles, as well as the inter-regional connections which fostered the transmission of architectural traditions and technical know-how have been cardinal points in Tomlinson's writings and lectures, as much as the Greek foundations on foreign soil, the forethought in planning, achievements in the field of engineering and the interaction between the secular, the sepulchral and the sacred premises in an ancient city. The conservative or progressive attitudes of a society usually leave an imprint on architectural creations. So, architecture is subject to evolution along with the developing societies. Its gradual changing signifies the building programs taken up by ancient communities. Within this frame, we better comprehend the function of public edifices, the remodeling of cult sites in accordance with historic circumstances, the role of politics in architecture. This book is a token of appreciation for a British professor of archaeology, who spread knowledge of the Greek civilization, manifesting the brilliant spirit of the versatile ancient Greek builders.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright page
• Frontispiece
• Richard Tomlinson
• Contents Page
• Preface
• Publications by Richard Alan Tomlinson
• Emplekton - The Art of Weaving Stones
• Ionic or Doric
• Observations on the Interior Structure of the Macedonian Tombs
• The Stoas of the Sanctuary at Dodona
• Architectural Practice and the Distinctiveness of Sacred Sites
• Town and Sanctuary in Aetolia - Calydon in Context
• Politics Reflected on Architecture: An Evaluation of the Aetolian, the Pergamene and the Roman Input to the Religious Landscape at Delphi
• From the Valley of the Muses Via the Kabeirion of Thebes to the Ptoion: The Theatres and Sanctuaries of Boeotia
• Observations on the History and Topography of Two Major Sanctuaries of Poseidon and Zeus in Aigialeia of Achaea
• The Organization, Planning and Architectural Design of the Sanctuary of Zeus at Mount Lykaion, Arcadia
• Reconstructing Building Height: The Early Hellenistic Hestiatorion Propylon at Epidauros
• Interpretation of the Current State of the Treasuries Retaining Wall at Ancient Olympia through Staged Historical Back Analysis
• Sacred Architecture in Roman Laconia
• More Corinthian on Samothrace
• The Sanctuaries on the Island of Lesbos from an Architectural and Topographical Perspective
• Shaping the Ancient Religious Landscape at Kato Phana, Chios
• Topographical Study of Ancient Cos: New Data from the Western District
• The Tufa Stoa in Cos: A Hypothesis on Its Identification
• Medicine, Urbanisation and Religion in Classical Cos
• Temple and Hestiatorion. The Combined Edifice on Mount Çatallar Tepe (Turkey)
• The Role of Carians in the Development of Greek Architecture
• Visualising Cyrene: Three-Dimensional (3D) Laser Scanning and the Ancient Urban Environment
• New Evidence for Early Greek Settlement on the Acropolis of Selinunte
• Travels Around Greece
• Back Cover