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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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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.
