The Making of the Doric Temple: Architecture, Religion, and Social Change in Archaic Greece Zuchtriegel Gabriel
The Making of the Doric Temple: Architecture, Religion, and Social Change in Archaic Greece Zuchtriegel Gabriel In this volume, Gabriel Zuchtriegel revisits the idea of Doric architecture as the…
Specifikacia The Making of the Doric Temple: Architecture, Religion, and Social Change in Archaic Greece Zuchtriegel Gabriel
The Making of the Doric Temple: Architecture, Religion, and Social Change in Archaic Greece Zuchtriegel Gabriel
In this volume, Gabriel Zuchtriegel revisits the idea of Doric architecture as the paradigm of architectural and artistic evolutionism. Rather, he argues, it originated in tandem with a disruptive shift in urbanism, land use, and colonization in Archaic Greece. 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.
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. Zuchtriegel presents momentous architectural change as part of a broader transformation that involved religion, politics, economics, and philosophy. Doric architecture provided an answer to this challenge, as becomes evident from parallel developments in architecture, art, land division, urban planning,