Religious Architecture in Latium and Etruria, c. 900-500 BC

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Charlotte R. Potts (Sybille Haynes Associate Professor in Etruscan and Italic Archaeology and Art and the Katherine and Leonard Woolley Fellow at Somerville College, University of Oxford)

Religious Architecture in Latium and Etruria, c. 900-500 BC

Charlotte R. Potts (Sybille Haynes Associate Professor in Etruscan and Italic Archaeology and Art and the Katherine and Leonard Woolley Fellow at Somerville College, University of Oxford)

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Oxford University Press
10 December 2015

Religious buildings; History of architecture; Archaeology by period & region; History of religion

Series: Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology

Religious Architecture in Latium and Etruria c. 900-500 BC presents the first comprehensive treatment of cult buildings in western central Italy from the Iron Age to the Archaic Period. By analysing the archaeological evidence for the form of early religious buildings and their role in ancient communities, it reconstructs a detailed history of early Latial and Etruscan religious architecture that brings together the buildings and the people who used them.

The first part of the study examines the processes by which religious buildings changed from huts and shrines to monumental temples, and explores apparent differences between these processes in Latium and Etruria. The second part analyses the broader architectural, religious, and topographical contexts of the first Etrusco-Italic temples alongside possible rationales for their introduction. The result is a new and extensive account of when, where, and why monumental cult buildings became features of early central Italic society and set precedents for the great temples of republican Rome.

By: Charlotte R. Potts (Sybille Haynes Associate Professor in Etruscan and Italic Archaeology and Art and the Katherine and Leonard Woolley Fellow at Somerville College University of Oxford)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 284mm, Width: 227mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 1.050kg
ISBN: 9780198722076
ISBN 10: 0198722079
Series: Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 10 December 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

PART 1: FROM HUTS TO TEMPLES ; PART 2: RELIGIOUS MONUMENTALITY IN CONTEXT

Charlotte R. Potts is the Sybille Haynes Lecturer in Etruscan and Italic Archaeology and Art at the University of Oxford and the Woolley Fellow in Archaeology at Somerville College.

Reviews for Religious Architecture in Latium and Etruria, c. 900-500 BC

The special emphasis placed on the development of monumental religious architecture as a means of encouraging cross-cultural contact will also appeal to specialists interested in Mediterranean connectivity and urbanization. The value of the book lies primarily in the synthesis of an impressive amount of archaeological material in English, with an emphasis on the data recovered from the past fifty years or so of systematic excavation and study. The book's secondary value lies in the author's use of the archaeological evidence to challenge existing hypotheses concerning the identification of religious buildings and to propose new ways of understanding the role of monumentalization in the reconstruction of ancient societies. * J. Marilyn Evans, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * a welcome and important work in the field of pre-Roman archaeology ... It is an internationally important achievement with a huge impact on the study of ancient architecture. Her book offers many new insights and urges the reader to reconsider established views. It is a rich, well-argued, and impeccably researched study, which will surely have a major impact on its field. * Patricia S. Lulof, University of Amsterdam *