Research Catalog

Title

The Sanctuary of Athena at Sounion / by Barbara A. Barletta ; with architectural analysis by William B. Dinsmoor Jr. and observations by Homer A. Thompson.

Author

Barletta, Barbara A.

Publication

Princeton : American School of Classical Studies at Athens, [2017]

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Additional Authors

• Dinsmoor, William B., 1923-1988
• Thompson, Homer A.

Description

xviii, 342 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map; 30 cm.

Summary

The Temple of Athena at Sounion is one of the more unusual examples of Greek architecture. It was constructed with colonnades on only two - but adjacent - sides, and in the Ionic order characteristic of the Aegean Islands even though it was built in Attica. When the temple was excavated at the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries, little was found on site. Instead, subsequent excavations in the Athenian Agora recovered many of the missing building members, which had been reused in a Roman-period temple. A new study of the temple, including the material from Athens, was initiated by H.A. Thompson and W.B. Dinsmoor Jr. but was never completed. The current book builds on their work to provide for the first time a comprehensive view of the temple and its sanctuary.

Series Statement

Ancient art and architecture in context ; 4

Uniform Title

Ancient art and architecture in context ; 4.

Subject

• Sanctuary of Athena Sounias (Greece)
• Temples > Soúnio Cape
• Soúnio Cape (Greece) > Antiquities
• Soúnio Cape (Greece) > Buildings, structures, etc

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Investigations in the Sanctuary of Athena -- The Small Temple in the Sanctuary of Athena -- The Temple of Athena : Description and Reconstruction -- The Temple of Athena in Context -- Afterlife of the Temple of Athena.

ISBN

• 9780876619674
• 0876619677

LCCN

• 2014033280
• 40028036020

OCLC

• 1027969419
• on1027969419
• SCSB-8984612

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries