Written for students new to the subject, the book offers an overview of temple architecture and function in Greece and its western colonies. The book retains the appeal of the first edition: the prose is crisp, the chapters are brief, and there is a glossary of technical terms. Summing Up: Recommended.

CHOICE

This slim and affordable volume [is] … an attractive volume to assign for an introductory class.

Bryn Mawr Classical Review

[A] sound and helpful guide to the basics of Greek architecture in the major sanctuaries.

Classics for All

This book is much more than a work of armchair scholarship (although that aspect is well done): it bears the imprint of fresh insights and observations which are the author's own, based, it seems, on extensive autopsy.

Journal of Greek Archaeology

If you seek one comprehensive volume about major Greek temples, in both Greece and Italy, you could do no better than to pick up Emerson's readable, stimulating and newly revised book.

Jenifer Neils, Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece

In this meticulously researched - yet entirely accessible - introduction to ancient Greek sanctuaries and their temples, Mary Emerson brings together the most recent scholarship with her own careful observations to paint a picture of Greek religious life that is vivid, embodied, and real. Designed for generalists and undergraduates alike, it deserves inclusion in the libraries of all students of antiquity.

Peter Schultz, Scholar in Residence, North Dakota State University, USA