Might sound silly to say that I find what comes through this photo of the ruins of the Temple of Hera to be awesome–and I mean the terrifying aspect of awesome. Is it the massive stone binding the space? Indra Kagis McEwen: "The emphasis was on the unbound, the animated state: the chains that bound the cult statue [xoana] harnessed a fearful, excessive, super-natural life only in order to better disclose its presence." Shivers.[Socrates' Ancestor: An Essay on Architectural Beginnings, pp. 5-6; photo Serge Moulinier in Tzonis & Giannisi's Classical Greek Architecture: the Construction of the Modern, p. 187]
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