Rhetoric and the architecture of empire in the Athenian agora
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Author(s)
Lewis, John Vandenbergh
Advisor(s)
Julian Beinart.
Date Issued
1995
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
The various political regimes of ancient Athens established and legitimated their power through civic architecture and public rhetoric in the agora. A study of the parallel developments of architectural and rhetorical form , supported by previously published archaeological evidence and the well documented history of classical rhetoric, demonstrates that both served to propel democracy and, later, to euphemize the asymmetrical power structures of the Hellenistic and Roman empires. In addition, civic architecture and rhetoric worked in unison following analogous patterns of presentation in civic space. Civic imperial architecture in the agora may be thus understood to function as the stageset and legitimator of imperial political rhetoric in the agora.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1995.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 179-185).
Subjects
Architecture.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
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