The Argive Heraion
Subtitle: The Architecture of the Classical Temple of Hera (Argive Heraion, 1)
Publisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athen
Published: November 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780876618011
Subjects: Classical Greek & Roman archaeology; European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Reference; Architecture; Archaeology / Anthropology; History: World; Ancient Greece; Ancient - Greece; Archaeology; History - Specific Styles
First sentence: LOCATED ROUGHLY eight kilometers northeast of Argos and five kilometers southeast of Mycenae, the site of the Argive Heraoin overlooks the Argive Plain from an isolated hill at the base of the south slope of Mount Euboia (Figs. 1-4).