Pictorial dictionary of ancient Athens. (Translated from Greek.)

This is the first comprehensive, systematic, illustrated survey of the topography and architecture of ancient Athens. It covers the entire period from 3000 bc until 300 ad, with many excursions into later times. Divided into eighty alphabetical sections, the dictionary describes, with a wealth of historical and physical detail, every important ancient site, building and monument in the city, from temples and private houses to aqueducts and fortifications. All the related sculpture is discussed, and the texts are illustrated with copious photographs, drawings, maps and plans, many of them either previously unpublished or specially prepared for this book. Each entry concludes with a full bibliography, which lists every available reference work on every relic. In the twenty-five years Professor Travlos has spent studying and excavating in Athens, a vast quantity of new finds and discoveries have been made, and there is almost certainly no other living person who knows so much, or is better equipped to write about the city’s topography. An architect by profession, he has won wide recognition for his reconstruction of the Attalos Stoa in Athens, as well as for his archaeological excavations at Eleusis, Megara, ancient Corinth, Isthmia and Pylos. He was awarded the Purfina Prize for his book The Development of the Plan of the Town of Athens. In common with Ernest Nash’s Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Rome, this book was prepared in collaboration with the German Institute of Archaeology. It is certain to rank with Dr Nash’s great dictionary, and to take its place as an indispensable work of reference for every archaeologist, classicist, and serious student of the architecture, topography and history of Athens. FOREWORD INTRODUCTION ABBREVIATIONS PICTORIAL SOURCES AGORA AGORA OF CAESAR AND AUGUSTUS AGORANOMION AKADEMIA AKROPOLIS AKROPOLIS: MYCENAEAN SPRING HOUSE AMYNEION APHRODITE HEGEMONE AND APHRODITE OURANIA APOLLO DELPHINIOS APOLLO HYPOAKRAIOS APOLLO PATROOS APOLLO PYTHIOS ARES ARTEMIS AGROTERA ARTEMIS ARISTOBOULE ARTEMIS BRAURONIA ASKLEPIEION ASKLEPIEION SPRING HOUSE ATHENA, ARCHAIOS NAOS ATHENA NIKE ATHENS BALANEIA BOULEUTERION CHALKOTHEQUE ELEUSINION ENNEAKROUNOS-KALLIRRHOE EPONYMOUS HEROES ERECHTHEION EROS AND APHRODITE GYMNASIUM OF PTOLEMY HADRIAN, AQUEDUCT OF HADRIAN, LIBRARY OF HADRIAN’S ARCH HEKATOMPEDON HEPHAISTOS HERAKLES ALEXIKAKOS HERAKLES PANKRATES HOROLOGION OF ANDRONIKOS ILISSOS AREA KERAMEIKOS KLEPSYDRA KODROS, NELEUS AND BASILE KRONOS AND RHEA KYNOSARGES LATRINES LYKEION LYSIKRATES MONUMENT METROON IN THE AGORA NIKIAS MONUMENT NYMPHE ODEION OF AGRIPPA ODEION OF HERODES ATTICUS ODEION OF PERIKLES ΟΙΚΙΑ OLYMPIEION PALLADION PAN PANATHENAIC WAY PANHELLENION PANTAINOS, LIBRARY OF PANTHEON PARTHENON PERIBOLOS OF THE TWELVE GODS PHILOPAPPOS MONUMENT PNYX POMPEION PROPYLAIA ROMA AND AUGUSTUS STADIUM STOA OF ATTALOS STOA OF ATTALOS, EARLIER BUILDINGS STOA OF EUMENES STOA OF ZEUS ELEUTHERIOS STOA WITH DINING-ROOMS THEATRE OF DIONYSOS THOLOS THRASYLLOS MONUMENT TRIPODS, STREET OF ZEUS HYPSISTOS ZEUS PHRATRIOS SUPPLEMENT INDEX INSCRIPTIONS [by] John Traulos; [prepared With The Collaboration Of The German Archaeological Institute, Translated From The Greek Ms.]. Originally Published, In German Translation, Tübingen: Was1971. Includes Bibliographical References.