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The Buried City
The internationally bestselling behind-the-scenes tour of Pompeii from the director of the site, Gabriel Zuchtriegel Pompeii reveals a whole world, frozen in time. It is a unique record of the catastrophe that destroyed an entire city on 24th August, 79 A.D: there are unmade beds, dishes left drying, bodies of victims encased in ash. Alongside the remnants of daily life, there are also captivating works of art: lifelike portraits, exquisite frescos and mosaics, and the sculpture of a sleeping boy curled up, just as children still do today when their blanket is too short. But this is only the beginning of what we know about Pompeii - remarkably a third of the site remains unexcavated. In The ...
The Making of the Doric Temple
In this volume, Gabriel Zuchtriegel revisits the idea of Doric architecture as the paradigm of architectural and artistic evolutionism. Bringing together old and new archaeological data, some for the first time, he posits that Doric architecture has little to do with a wood-to-stone evolution. Rather, he argues, it originated in tandem with a disruptive shift in urbanism, land use, and colonization in Archaic Greece. Zuchtriegel presents momentous architectural change as part of a broader transformation that involved religion, politics, economics, and philosophy. As Greek elites colonized, explored, and mapped the Mediterranean, they sought a new home for the gods in the changing landscapes of the sixth-century BC Greek world. Doric architecture provided an answer to this challenge, as becomes evident from parallel developments in architecture, art, land division, urban planning, athletics, warfare, and cosmology. Building on recent developments in geography, gender, and postcolonial studies, this volume offers a radically new interpretation of architecture and society in Archaic Greece.
Colonization and Subalternity in Classical Greece
In this book, Gabriel Zuchtriegel explores and reconstructs the unwritten history of Classical Greece - the experience of nonelite colonial populations. Using postcolonial critical methods to analyze Greek settlements and their hinterlands of the fifth and fourth centuries BC, he reconstructs the social and economic structures in which exploitation, violence, and subjugation were implicit. He mines literary sources and inscriptions, as well as archaeological and data from excavations and field surveys, much of it published here for the first time, that offer new insights into the lives and status of nonelite populations in Greek colonies. Zuchtriegel demonstrates that Greece's colonial experience has far-reaching implications beyond the study of archaeology and ancient history. As reflected in foundational texts such as Plato's 'Laws' and Aristotle's 'Politics', the ideology that sustained Greek colonialism is still felt in many Western societies.
Paestum. From building site to temple
There were numerous divine “dwellings” at Paestum just as there were in other Greek cities around the Mediterranean. The Temple of Neptune is simply the most well-preserved example. Next to it stands the “Basilica”, the oldest of the three great Doric buildings at Paestum (c. 560-520 BC). Further north, beyond the Roman forum which stands on the area previously occupied by the ancient agora (a marketplace and a square, where assemblies and other meetings were held in the Greek period), a small hill is crowned by the temple of Athena – the only one for which the identity of the deity worshipped there is definitely known. [Gabriel Zuchtriegel]. A masterful, rigorous and accessible guide, updated to the latest archaeological discoveries, of the best preserved and enhanced archaeological site of Magna Graecia
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The Making of the Doric Temple
The author argues that Doric architecture originated in a disruptive shift in urbanism, land use, and colonization in Archaic Greece.
