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.
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.
List of Illustrations Introduction Mantha Zarmakoupi 1 Hermogenes, the "First Inventor": What Is at Issue? Lothar Haselberger 2 The Late Classical Pseudodipteros Temple of the Pan-Lesbian Sanctuary at Messon Yannis Kourtzellis 3 Hermogenes' Samothracian Prequel Bonna D. Wescoat and Samuel Holzman 4 The Sanctuary of Dionysos at Teos and Hermogenes Musa Kadioglu, Marco Galli, Tommaso Ismaelli, Sara Bozza, OEzlem Vapur, and Mustafa Adak 5 The Dating of the Temple of Artemis Leukophryne at Magnesia on the Meander Orhan BingOEl 6 Pseudodipteral Temples of Apollo in Light of Vitruvius' De architectura (III.2.6) GOErkem KOEkdemir 7 The Sanctuary of Artemis at Sardis Before the Temple Nicholas Cahill 8 The Temple of Artemis at Sardis: An Exceptional Pseudodipteros Between Hermogenes and Hadrian Fikret YegUEl 9 Stratonike and the Temple of Artemis: Queenly Gifts to Golden Sardis Fikret YegUEl 10 Hermogenes, Hellenistic Architecture, and Rome Mantha Zarmakoupi Contributors Index
"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, Universite Bordeaux Montaigne
