Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture

by Axel Böethius

• ISBN13: 9780300052909
• ISBN10: 0300052901
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1992-11-25
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

Axel Boethius's account begins about 1400 B.C. with the primitive villages of the Italic tribes. The scene was transformed by the arrival of the Greeks and by the Etruscans who by about 600 had Rome and Central Italy under their cultural spell.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Second Edition	7	(1)
Map	8	(1)
1. THE STONE AND BRONZE AGES	9	(10)
2. THE EARLY IRON AGE	19	(13)
3. ETRUSCAN ARCHITECTURE	32	(71)
Introduction	32	(2)
Techniques and Materials	34	(1)
Temples The Early Temples -- Types of Plan and Superstructure -- Plans -- Podia -- The Orders -- Pediments and Roofs -- Ornament -- Liturgical Disposition	35	(29)
Town Planning	64	(11)
Domestic Architecture	75	(19)
Roads and Bridges	94	(1)
Tombs and Cemeteries	94	(7)
Conclusion	101	(2)
4. ETRUSCAN ROME	103	(11)
5. ROME DURING THE STRUGGLE FOR SUPREMACY IN ITALY (386-about 200 B.C.)	114	(22)
6. HELLENIZED ROME `CONSUETUDO ITALICA'	136	(81)
Techniques and Materials in Public Buildings	137	(3)
Techniques and Materials in Domestic Architecture	140	(5)
Fora	145	(4)
Basilicas	149	(7)
Temples Ornament -- Types of Plan and Superstructure	156	(22)
Town Planning	178	(5)
Domestic Architecture	183	(7)
Villas	190	(5)
Baths, Theatres, and Other Public Buildings Baths and Palaestrae -- Circuses -- Theatres	195	(11)
Utilitarian Architecture	206	(3)
Tombs and Cemeteries	209	(5)
Conclusion	214	(3)
List of Principal Abbreviations	217	(2)
Notes	219	(22)
Select Glossary	241	(6)
Bibliography	247	(4)
List of Illustrations	251	(4)
Index	255