Listening to the Stones: Essays on Architecture and Function in Ancient Greek Sanctuaries in Honour of Richard Alan Tomlinson

Listening to the Stones brings together essays on architecture and function in ancient Greek sanctuaries in honour of archaeologist Richard Alan Tomlinson. The contributors examine masonry, architectural orders, proportions, engineering, planning and the transmission of building traditions alongside the ways sacred spaces were adapted and used.

The ancient sanctuary was rarely a single, unchanging temple. A study of stoas at Dodona sits beside work on political interventions in the sacred landscape of Delphi; other essays investigate dining buildings at Epidauros and the changing relationship between town and sanctuary on Cos. The essays ask not just how sacred buildings were constructed, but why communities kept changing the places in which they met their gods.