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This book examines the mutual influence of architecture and human
action during a key period of history: the Hellenistic age. During
this era, the profound transformations in the Mediterranean's
archaeological and historical record are detectable, pointing to a
conscious intertwining of the physical (landscape, architecture,
bodies) and social (practice) components of built space. Compiling
the outcomes of a conference held in Kiel in 2018, the volume
assembles contributions focusing on Hellenistic architecture as an
action context, perceived in movement through built space.
Sanctuaries, as a particularly coherent kind of built space
featuring well-defined sets of architecture combined with ritual
action, were chosen as the general frame for the analyses. The
reciprocity between this sacred architecture and (religious) human
action is traced through several layers starting from three
specific case studies (Messene, Samothrace, Pella), extending to
architectural modules, and finally encompassing overarching
principles of design and use. As two additional case studies on
caves and agorai show, the far-reaching entanglement of
architecture and human action was neither restricted to highly
architecturalised nor sacred spaces, but is characteristic of
Hellenistic built space in general.
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