Greek and Roman Architecture

This book provides an account of the main developments in Greek, Etruscan and Roman architecture.

D. S. Robertson (Author)

9780521094528, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 May 1969

456 pages
23.2 x 14.9 x 3 cm, 0.67 kg

'Professor Robertson has produced a really great handbook and one which promises to become the standard general work, in English, or perhaps in any language, on its subject. It has not only accuracy, attention to detail and sholarship - these qualities we would expect - it has clarity, breadth or treatment and what can be called architectural soundness.' Cambridge Review

This book provides a brief, clear account of the main developments in the history of the Greek, Etruscan and Roman architecture, from the earliest times to the foundation of Constantinople. It contains 135 drawings and 24 plates. Professor Robertson has produced a really great handbook; one that has become the standard general work, in English, or perhaps in any language, on its subject. It has not only accuracy, attention to detail and scholarship - these qualities we would expect - it has clarity, breadth of treatment and what can be called architectural soundness.

Preface to first edition
Preface to second edition
List of illustrations
1. Sources of knowledge, materials and methods
2. Minoan Crete, Troy, and pre-Mycenaean Greece
3. Mycenaean Greece and Homeric architecture
5. The Dark Ages: technical terms
5. The earliest doric and its timber prototypes
6. Sixth-century doric
7. Archaic ionic
8. Fifth-century doric, to the outbreak of the Peloponesian War
9. Ionic in the fifth century, and doric and corinthian in the late fifth and fourth
10. Fourth-century and Hellenistic ionic, and Hellenistic doric and Corinthian
11. Greek theatres and other buildings not temples or private houses
12. Greek and Roman town-planning
13. Temple architecture of the Roman republic
14. Temple architecture of the Roman empire
15. Roman construction
16. Basilicas, theatres, amphitheatres, and other Roman monuments
17. Greek and Roman houses and palaces
Appendix
General index.

Subject Areas: History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE [ACG]