Hellenistic Architecture and Human Action: A Case of Reciprocal Influence (Scales of Transformation)

ISBN 10: 9088909105 / ISBN 13: 9789088909108

Published by Sidestone Press, 2020

Seller Inventory # mon0002880857

Synopsis:

This book examines the mutual influence of architecture and human action during a key period of history: the Hellenistic age. During this era, the profound transformations in the Mediterranean’s archaeological and historical record are detectable, pointing to a conscious intertwining of the physical (landscape, architecture, bodies) and social (practice) components of built space. Compiling the outcomes of a conference held in Kiel in 2018, the volume assembles contributions focusing on Hellenistic architecture as an action context, perceived in movement through built space. Sanctuaries, as a particularly coherent kind of built space featuring well-defined sets of architecture combined with ritual action, were chosen as the general frame for the analyses. The reciprocity between this sacred architecture and (religious) human action is traced through several layers starting from three specific case studies (Messene, Samothrace, Pella), extending to architectural modules, and finally encompassing overarching principles of design and use. As two additional case studies on caves and agorai show, the far-reaching entanglement of architecture and human action was neither restricted to highly architecturalised nor sacred spaces, but is characteristic of Hellenistic built space in general.

About the Author: Institute of Classical Studies / Classical Archaeology, CAU Kiel (present). Studies of Classical Archaeology, Art History and Prehistory in Heidelberg and Paris, binational Phd 2003, Habilitation Leipzig 2009, LMU München Heisenberg Fellow; Professor of Classics, especially Classical Archaeology at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 2012, Co-Coordinator of the Kiel Graduate School ‘Human Development in Landscapes’ 2016–. Key publications: Haug 2003: A. Haug, Die Stadt als Lebensraum. Eine kulturhistorische Analyse zum spätantiken Stadtleben in Norditalien. Internationale Archäologie 85 (Rahden 2003). Haug 2012: A. Haug, Die Entdeckung des Körpers. Körper- und Rollenbilder im Athen des 8. und 7. Jh. v. Chr. (Berlin/New York 2012). Haug/Steuernagel 2014: A. Haug/D. Steuernagel, Das Haus XV B in Megara Hyblaia. Studien zur antiken Stadt 14 (Wiesbaden 2014). Haug 2015: A. Haug, Bild und Ornament im frühen Athen (Regensburg 2015). Haug/Steuernagel 2014: A. Haug/D. Steuernagel (eds.), Hellenistische Häuser und ihre Funktionen. Internationale Tagung Kiel, 4. bis 6. April 2013 (Bonn 2014). Haug/Kreuz 2016: A. Haug/P.-A. Kreuz (eds.), Stadterfahrung als Sinneserfahrung in der Römischen Kaiserzeit (Turnhout 2016).

Institute of Classical Archaeology, Freie Universität Berlin (present). Studies of Classical Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Experimental Archaeology and Egyptology at Leipzig and Exeter (UK); PhD Kiel 2017; Postdoc Research Fellow CRC 1266, project E3 at the Institute of Classical Studies / Classical Archaeology, CAU Kiel, 2016-2017; Travel Scholarship of the German Archaeological Institute 2017-2018; Assistant Professor at the Institute of Classical Archaeology, Freie Universität Berlin 2018-. Key publications: Müller, A., 2017. Provenancing Roman period mummy masks: workshop groups and distribution areas. In: M. Tomorad and J. Popielska-Gzybowska, eds. Egypt 2015: Perspectives of Research. Proceedings of the Seventh European Conference of Egyptologists, 2nd-7th June 2015, Zagreb, Croatia, Archaeopress Egyptology 18. Oxford: Archaeopress, 127-145. Müller, A., 2018. Masking the dead in Roman Egypt. In: A. Berlejung and J.E. Filitz, eds. The physicality of the other: masks from the ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean, Orientalische Religionen in der Antike 27, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 91-112. Müller, A., forthcoming. Hellenistic built space and human Action: the Asclepieion of Cos. In: A. Haug and S. Merten, eds. Urban Practices.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Hellenistic Architecture and Human Action: A...
Publisher: Sidestone Press
Publication Date: 2020
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good