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The architecture of roman temples : the Republic to the Middle Empire

This book examines the development of Roman temple architecture from its earliest history to the reigns of Hadrian and the Antonines in the second century AD. John Stamper traces the evolution of Rome's temple architecture and how it accommodated changing political and religious contexts.
Print Book, English, 2005
University Press, Cambridge, 2005
Italia
XV, 287 p. : il. ; 28 cm
9780521810685, 052181068X
638828101
Introduction: the authority of precedent; 1. Building the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus; 2. A new reconstruction of the temple; 3. Etrusco-Roman temples of the Early Republic; 4. Assimilation of Hellenistic architecture after the Punic Wars; 5. The Corinthian Order in the First Century B.C.; 6. Architecture and ceremony in the time of Pompey and Julius Caesar; 7. Rebuilding Rome in the time of Augustus; 8. Augustus and the Temple of Mars Ultor; 9. Temples and fora of the Flavian Emperors; 10. Trajan's Forum; 11. Hadrian's Pantheon; 12. Hadrian and the Antonines.
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