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Hermogenes and Hellenistic-Roman Temple Building

Mantha Zarmakoupi

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English
University of Wisconsin Press
14 April 2026
Recent major excavations at a variety of sites associated with Hermogenes have refreshed, invigorated, and refined our understanding of this important Hellenistic architect. Here, in the first volume dedicated to him in more than two decades, new evidence and multivocal analysis allow for fresh contextualization, offering new insights into ancient Greek and Roman architecture and the sociopolitical factors that informed it.

Hermogenes remains perhaps the most influential and famous designer of the Hellenistic world, although he is known primarily via the first-century BCE Roman architect Vitruvius, who credited his Greek predecessor with major accomplishments. Despite his comparative fame, the paucity of sources has left Hermogenes’ legacy obscured. This volume updates the evidence, reevaluates this highly significant figure, and reintroduces crucial innovations in the ancient Greek world—innovations that continue to be influential today.
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Imprint:   University of Wisconsin Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 254mm,  Width: 203mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   1.107kg
ISBN:   9780299355203
ISBN 10:   0299355209
Series:   The Warren Moon Series in Art and Archaeology
Pages:   340
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Mantha Zarmakoupi is the Morris Russell and Josephine Chidsey Williams Assistant Professor in Roman Architecture in the Department of History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Designing for Luxury on the Bay of Naples: Villas and Landscapes (c. 100 BCE–79 CE) and Shaping Roman Landscape: Ecocritical Approaches to Architecture and Wall Painting in Early Imperial Italy and the editor of The Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum: Archaeology, Reception, and Digital Reconstruction; Looking at the City: Architectural and Archaeological Perspectives; and The Delos Symposia and Doxiadis.

Reviews for Hermogenes and Hellenistic-Roman Temple Building

“Of interest to all archaeologists specializing in ancient architecture, particularly of the Hellenistic period, this volume reviews what we think we know about Hermogenes and updates our evidence in the light of new discoveries and analysis. Clear, complete, and interesting.” - Marietta Dromain, Université Bordeaux Montaigne “With a fine analysis of Vitruvius’ context in Rome, Zarmakoupi and excavators at key sites challenge conventional interpretations of the architect Hermogenes by comparing Vitruvius’ text with recent archaeological information.” - Mary Hollinshead, University of Rhode Island


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