Trophies of Victory (eBook)

Public Building in Periklean Athens

T. Leslie Shear Jr. (Autor)

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2016
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8113-0 (ISBN)

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Shear Jr.T. Leslie:

T. Leslie Shear, Jr., is professor emeritus of classical archaeology at Princeton University. From 1968 to 1994, he was director of archaeological excavations in the Athenian Agora, working under the auspices of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. He is the author of Kallias of Sphettos and the Revolution of Athens in 286 B.C.T. Leslie Shear, Jr., is professor emeritus of classical archaeology at Princeton University. From 1968 to 1994, he was director of archaeological excavations in the Athenian Agora, working under the auspices of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. He is the author of Kallias of Sphettos and the Revolution of Athens in 286 B.C.

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The Greek military victories at Marathon, Salamis, and Plataia during the Persian Wars profoundly shaped fifth-century politics and culture. By long tradition, the victors commemorated their deliverance by dedicating thank-offerings in the sanctuaries of their gods, and the Athenians erected no fewer than ten new temples and other buildings. Because these buildings were all at some stage of construction during the political ascendency of Perikles, in the third quarter of the fifth century, modern writers refer to them collectively as the Periklean building program. In Trophies of Victory, T. Leslie Shear, Jr., who directed archaeological excavations at the Athenian Agora for more than twenty-five years, provides the first comprehensive account of the Periklean buildings as a group.This richly illustrated book examines each building in detail, including its archaeological reconstruction, architectural design, sculptural decoration, chronology, and construction history. Shear emphasizes the Parthenon's revolutionary features and how they influenced smaller contemporary temples. He examines inscriptions that show how every aspect of public works was strictly controlled by the Athenian Assembly. In the case of the buildings on the Acropolis and the Telesterion at Eleusis, he looks at accounts of their overseers, which illuminate the administration, financing, and organization of public works. Throughout, the book provides new details about how the Periklean buildings proclaimed Athenian military prowess, aggrandized the city's cults and festivals, and laid claim to its religious and cultural primacy in the Greek world.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.8.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 55 halftones. 68 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Achaemenid architecture • Acropolis of Athens • Aeschylus • Agrotera • Alexander the Great • Amazonomachy • Amphictyon • Ancient Greek temple • Ancient Rome • Anta (architecture) • apadana • Archaic Greece • Architrave • Ashlar • Athena Parthenos • Athenian Treasury • basileus • battle of Marathon • Brauron • Chersiphron • cornice • Crepidoma • Delian League • Didyma • Doric order • Eleusis • Entablature • Ephesus • Epigram • Erechtheion • Erechtheus • Euripides • Eurystheus • Geison • Gorgoneion • Great hall • Greek Mythology • Hellenistic period • Homer • Iconography • Imperial cult (ancient Rome) • Intercolumniation • Ionic order • Long Walls • Masonry • Megarian decree • Metagenes • Metope • Mnesikles • Molding (decorative) • Older Parthenon • Ostracism • Ovolo • Palmette • Parian marble • Parthenon • Parthenon Frieze • Pasargadae • Pediment • Peisistratos • Peloponnese • Peloponnesian League • Pericles • peristyle • Persepolis • Phidias • Philon • Polykleitos • Poros • Portico • Pottery • Proportion (architecture) • Rhamnous • Roman Empire • Sicilian Expedition • Sounion • Spolia • Stater • Stoa Poikile • stonemasonry • Stylobate • Sulla • Superiority (short story) • Telesterion • Temple of Ares • temple of artemis • Temple of Athena Nike • Temple of Hephaestus • Temple of Zeus, Olympia • The Persians • Thucydides • Tile • Tiryns • Triglyph • trireme • Trojan War • Vitruvius • warfare • Western Wall • Xoanon
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8113-7 / 1400881137
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8113-0 / 9781400881130