Setting out on the trail of Greek Architecture, this volume presents a comprehensive survey which extends beyond the borders of Greece itself to include southern Italy, Asia Minor and Persia. Fortifications, domed tombs, theatres, oracular sites, temples and palaces dating from the sixteenth to the fourth century B.C. are all set within their cultural and historical context, conveying a vivid impression of the architecture of Ancient Greece and its profound importance.

Setting out on the trail of Greek Architecture, this volume presents a comprehensive survey which extends beyond the borders of Greece itself to include southern Italy, Asia Minor and Persia. Fortifications, domed tombs, theatres, oracular sites, temples and palaces dating from the sixteenth to the fourth century B.C. are all set within their cultural and historical context, conveying a vivid impression of the architecture of Ancient Greece and its profound importance.

INTRODUCTION

Greek Architecture -

a Source of Aesthetics

MYCENAEAN ARCHITECTURE

Fortifications, Tombs and Palaces

of the "Homeric" World

THE ORIGINS OF THE GREEK TEMPLE

The Emergence of the Peripteral

Colonnade

SANCTUARIES OF MAGNA GRAEClA

From Archaism to Classicism

THE ROLE OF GREEK ASIA MINOR

The Art of Ionia and the Achaemenids

MONUMENTS OF CLASSICAL GREECE

The Flowering of Temples and Fortresses

THE ACROPOLIS OF PERICLES

Architecture at its Zenith

CONCLUSION

Reason - the Great Organizer

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

GLOSSARY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND CREDITS