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Author Butz, Patricia A., author.

Title The art of the Hekatompedon inscription and the birth of the stoikhedon style / by Patricia A. Butz
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 172 pages) : illustrations
Series Monumenta Graeca et Romana ; v. 16
Monumenta Graeca et Romana ; v. 16.
Contents Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; List of Plates; Terminology; Bibliography and Abbreviations; Chapter One The Alphabet of the Hekatompedon Inscription; Chapter Two The Stoikhedon Arrangement of the Hekatompedon Inscription; Chapter Three Punctuation and the Hekatompedon Inscription as Sacred Law; Chapter Four The Hekatompedon Inscription and the Origins of the Stoikhedon Style; Chapter Five The Hekatompedon Inscription and the Definition of the Stoikhedon Style; Chapter Six The Hekatompedon Inscription as Monument and Masterpiece; Appendices; Epigraphical Index; General Index
Summary The purpose of this book is to present the Hekatompedon Inscription at Athens (IG I3 4) as a major monument of Greek art, legitimately on a par with more famous landmarks of the Greek aesthetic tradition like the Parthenon Frieze. Inscribed most probably in the middle of the decade that saw the Greek response to the Persian invasion, the Hekatompedon Inscription has long been recognized for its historical and religious importance. This study looks at the inscription on its own terms: the unique fusion of its visual and textual content in that most Greek of epigraphical layouts, the stoikhedon style. Such an approach leads to the question of origins: where and why was the stoikhedon style formulated and where does the Hekatompedon Inscription stand in that development? Egypt's influential system of proportions and use of grids will be considered determinative for the very first time. --Book Jacket
Notes Based the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1995) under the title: The 'Hekatompedon Inscription' at Athens
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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SUBJECT Hekatompedon inscription. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010016776
Hekatompedon inscription fast
Subject Architectural inscriptions -- Greece -- Athens
Decoration and ornament, Architectural -- Greece -- Athens
Stoichedon inscriptions.
Greek language -- Alphabet.
ARCHITECTURE -- Interior Design -- General.
Architectural inscriptions
Decoration and ornament, Architectural
Greek language -- Alphabet
Stoichedon inscriptions
Inschrift
Inschrift.
Fuss (Masseinheit)
Architektur.
Greece -- Athens
Athen
Griechenland (Altertum)
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010012052
ISBN 9789004193277
9004193278
1283039095
9781283039093