Antiquity

PROLOGUE: ORIGINS; Sentient Man At Home; The Fertile Crescent And The Neighbouring; Nile Valley; Settlement To Town; Religion: Earth-Mother And Sky-God; Neolithic Europe; PART 1 WEST ASIA AND THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; 1.1 THE FERTILE CRESCENT AND THE NILE VALLEY; Introduction: Civilization And Architecture; Materials And Structure; Ornamentation And Design; 1 Sumer; Religion; The Tripartite Plan And The Temple; Secular Power And Kingship; The Palace; The Early Dynastic Temple; 2 The Old Kingdom Of Egypt; Egyptian Cosmology; Pharaonic Egypt; The Old Kingdom Succession; Pharaonic Continuum; From Mastaba To Pyramid; From Pyramid To Obelisk; 3 Mesopotamian Empires; Ur: Sacred Compound; Ur: Town And House; Ur's Sumerian Successors And The Palace; The Temple In The Early 2nd Millennium BCE; Amorites, Trade And The East; The Indus Valley Civilization; Assur, Mari And Babylon; 4 Theban Kingdoms Of The Nile; Gods And King; Houses For The Living And The Dead; The New Kingdom And Empire; Hiding The Tomb; Amplifying The Temple; The Royal Cult Temple; The Palace; The Town: Grids And Zoning; 1.2 THE AEGEAN, ANATOLIA AND THE ARYANS; 5 Minoans And Achaeans; Crete; Minos And The Bull; Cretan Cataclysm; Achaeans And Trojans; The Triumph Of Reason; The Hittite Anatolian Order; Citadels And Sanctuaries In Ancient Anatolia; 1.3 ISSUES FROM A DARK AGE; 6 Levant; The Dark Age At The Turn Of The Second Millennium; The Bit-Hilani; The Hebrews; 7 Sabea; Sabea And Axum; 8 World Empire; Assyria And Babylon; Seats Of Assyrian Power; The Fall Of Assyria And The Neo-Babylonians; The Achaemenids And Their World Empire; Seats Of Achaemenid Power; PART 2 PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICA; Introduction; 2.1 MESOAMERICA; 1 The Pre-Classic Era Of The Olmecs; Olmec Centres; Olmec God, Man And Mediator; Olmec Legacy; 2 Classic Achievement; Common Beliefs; The State; Siting And Planning; Ubiquitous Form; Type And Style In The Orbit Of Teotihuacan And Monte Alban; Classic Mayan Idiosyncrasy; Late-Classic Mayans; 3 The Post-Classic World Of The Toltecs And Aztecs; The Northern Chichimeca And Their Progeny; Mexica Aztecs; 2.2 THE ANDEAN LITTORAL; Introduction; The First Horizon; Tiahuanaco And The Middle Horizon; The Late Horizon Of The Inca; Inca State And Hierarchy; Inca Religion; Inca Building; The Temple; Complex And Town; PART 3 THE CLASSICAL WORLD; 3.1 HELLENIC ORDER; Introduction: Hellas And Hellenic Society; The Olympian Gods; Early Temples; Hellenic Settlement; Towards Democracy; The Polis; The Persian Menace; Philosophy; Mathematics,Music And Mysteries; 1 The Ordering Of Architecture; The Anthropomorphic Ideal Of Order; Ionic Inception; 2 Doric From Archaic To Classical; Western Colonies; Refinement Of Proportions; Truth Versus Appearance; The Ideal And Vitality; 3 Periklean Apogee; The Propylaea; The Temple Of Nike And The Erechtheion; The Sanctuary Of Dionysos; 4 Planning And Technology; The Development Of Formality; Housing; Building Technology; 5 Polis In Crisis; Platonic Rationalism; Aristotelian Empiricism; Eclecticism And The Advent Of Corinthian; Praxiteles And Lysippos; Internal Embellishment And Ambiguity; 3.2 MACEDONIANS AND THE EAST; Introduction; Divine Monarchy; Transformation Of The Hellenic Ideal; Tombs And Monuments; Ionic Apotheosis; 6 Late-Classical Planning And Defence; The Theatre; Housing; Defence; Pergamon; Mixed Orders; 3.3 REPUBLICAN ROME AND ITS MENTORS; Introduction: Legend, Arms And Mores; Greeks And Etruscans; Absorption Of Etruria And Destruction Of Carthage; Rigour And Religion; Political Discipline; 7 Etruscan Legacy; Houses And Tombs; Temples; From Temple Precinct To Urban Order; 8 Hellenization And Engineering; Eastern Conquest; Republic In Crisis; Early Hellenistic Roman Building; The Hellenized Roman Town And Public; Building Types; Decoration And The House; Mass Housing; Engineering And Building Technology; Materials; 3.4 AUGUSTAN ROME AND ITS EMPIRE; Introduction: From Caesar To Constantine; Augustus; Imperial Succession; Expansion And Decline; The Cult Of The Emperor; 9 Augustan Rome And Vitruvius; Vitruvius; 10 Form And Imperial Style; The Theatre And Its Articulation; Scenography; Mannerism; Rococo; Parthian Postscript; 11 Mass And Imperial Space; Concrete Space; The Apotheosis Of The Villa; Thermae; Decoration; Baroque Mass; Sassanian Digression; Palace And Basilica In The Age Of Diocletian; PART 4 CHRISTIANITY AND EMPIRE; 4.1 ROME AND NEW ROMES; Introduction: Constantine And The Dominion Of Christ; Christianity In Context; Retreat; From Proscription To Prescription; Authority; Doctrine And Debate; Neoplatonism And The Light Of God; Liturgy; Icon And Iconoclasm; Christian Building Types: The Roman; Inheritance; Constantinian Building; The Basilica; Baptistery And Shrine; Hybrids; 2 Division And Late-Imperial Rome; The Eternal City Eclipsed; Building Under Constantine's Successors; Roman Standards; Milan; Ravenna; 3 Early Imperial Byzantium And Diversity; The Orbit Of Constantinople; The Aegean Littoral; Asia Minor; Syria; Egypt And North Africa; Baptistery; 4 Beyond The Pale: Ethiopia; The Church In Axum; The Late-Axumite Church; Lalibela; Gondar And Tana; 4.2 JUSTINIAN AND THE APOTHEOSIS OF BYZANTIUM; Revival In The East; Justinian Splendour: Basilica And Dome; Cross And Dome; 5 Consolidation And Standardization In The East; From Domed Basilica To Quincunx; EPILOGUE: THE LAST HALF MILLENNIUM OF BYZANTIUM; Introduction; The Prevalence Of The Quincunx; The Iconic Panoply Of Heaven; From Contraction To Organic Development; GLOSSARY; FURTHER READING; MAPS; The Achaemenid Empire, C. 650-330 Bce; Egypt, C. 2500 Bce; The Hellenistic World; The Roman Empire, C. 100 Ce; The Christian World, 700-1050; The Incas; The Aztecs; INDEX