All Outputs (38)

From Text to Building: The Impact of the Timaeus on the Discipline of Architecture in Later Antiquity (2024)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (in press). From Text to Building: The Impact of the Timaeus on the Discipline of Architecture in Later Antiquity. In J. Prins, & E. Thomas (Eds.), The Legacy of Plato's Timaeus. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004705838

Bernini’s Two Theatres and the Trauma of Classical Reception (2024)
Journal Article
Thomas, E. (2024). Bernini’s Two Theatres and the Trauma of Classical Reception. Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, 10(1), 131-146

This article compares how the theatrical architectural spaces of Francesco Guitti at Parma and Gian Lorenzo Bernini at Rome used classical traditions of spectacle to satisfy contemporary sensationalist demands. Guitti’s stage machinery devised after... Read More about Bernini’s Two Theatres and the Trauma of Classical Reception.

Introduction: From Plato’s Text to the Beginnings of Modern Science: Towards a New Understanding of the Disciplinary Inheritance of Plato’s Timaeus (2024)
Book Chapter
Prins, J., & Thomas, E. (in press). Introduction: From Plato’s Text to the Beginnings of Modern Science: Towards a New Understanding of the Disciplinary Inheritance of Plato’s Timaeus. In J. Prins, & E. Thomas (Eds.), The Legacy of Plato’s Timaeus. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004705838

Built space, written space: baroque spatialities between architecture and text in Lucan, Statius, and the palaces of imperial Rome (2024)
Journal Article
Thomas, E. (in press). Built space, written space: baroque spatialities between architecture and text in Lucan, Statius, and the palaces of imperial Rome. Antichthon, 58,

This paper discusses two imperial Roman literary descriptions of architectural space (Luc. 10.111-135 and Stat. Silv. 4.2) as responses to the real architectural space of imperial palatial complexes in Rome, Nero’s Golden House and Domitian’s Palatin... Read More about Built space, written space: baroque spatialities between architecture and text in Lucan, Statius, and the palaces of imperial Rome.

The Legacy of Plato’s Timaeus (2024)
Book
Thomas, E., & Prins, J. (in press). J. Prins, & E. Thomas (Eds.). The Legacy of Plato’s Timaeus. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004705838

Plato’s Timaeus inspired a uniquely enduring interest across disciplines. In the centuries between its composition and the seventeenth century, scholars looked to this dialogue for answers to questions about the structure of the universe and how to l... Read More about The Legacy of Plato’s Timaeus.

Green shoots: Architectural transfer and sustainability in the architecture of the Roman provinces (2023)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (2023). Green shoots: Architectural transfer and sustainability in the architecture of the Roman provinces. In N. Mugnai (Ed.), Architectures of the Roman World (61-83). Oxford: Oxbow Books

Seasonally Adaptive Design in Roman Public Architecture and Urban Space (2021)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (2021). Seasonally Adaptive Design in Roman Public Architecture and Urban Space. In A. Lichtenberger, & R. Raja (Eds.), The Archaeology of Seasonality (279-302). Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers

Movement through Ruins: Re-experiencing Ancient Baalbek with Jean de la Roque (2020)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (2020). Movement through Ruins: Re-experiencing Ancient Baalbek with Jean de la Roque. In K. Skelton (Ed.), Early modern spaces in motion : design, experience and rhetoric (163-188). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463725811_ch06

The Materiality of Text - Placement, Perception, and Presence of Inscribed Texts in Classical Antiquity (2019)
Book
Petrovic, A., Petrovic, I., & Thomas, E. (Eds.). (2019). The Materiality of Text - Placement, Perception, and Presence of Inscribed Texts in Classical Antiquity. Brill Academic Publishers

Plato's Timaeus and the Foundations of Medieval and Renaissance Thought: Philosophy, Science and Art (2019)
Book
Philosophy, Science and Art. Brill Academic Publishers

Performance Space (2017)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (2017). Performance Space. In W. A. Johnson, & D. S. Richter (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of the Second Sophistic (181-201). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199837472.013.15

This chapter explores how public speakers of the second and third centuries ce, accustomed to extravagant physical demonstrations of their art, exploited the architectural spaces where they performed. Theaters, temples, and smaller roofed assembly bu... Read More about Performance Space.

Historic Towns Atlas: Winchester (2017)
Book
Biddle, M., Clayre, B., Keene, D., Morris, F., & Thomas, E. (2017). Historic Towns Atlas: Winchester. The Historic Towns Trust and the Winchester Excavations Committee

Urban Geographies of Human-Animal Relations in Classical Antiquity (2017)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (2017). Urban Geographies of Human-Animal Relations in Classical Antiquity. In T. Foegen, & E. Thomas (Eds.), Interactions between animals and humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity (339-368). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110545623-014

Understanding of the urban space of ancient cities has been subject to an anthropocentric bias with public and private space considered almost exclusively in terms of interactions between its human inhabitants. Yet, for example, even the grandiose Ho... Read More about Urban Geographies of Human-Animal Relations in Classical Antiquity.

Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. (2017)
Book
Foegen, T., & Thomas, E. (Eds.). (2017). Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110545623

The seventeen contributions to this volume, written by leading experts, show that animals and humans in Graeco-Roman antiquity are interconnected on a variety of different levels and that their encounters and interactions often result from their belo... Read More about Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity..

Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Introduction (2017)
Book Chapter
Foegen, T., & Thomas, E. (2017). Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Introduction. In T. Foegen, & E. Thomas (Eds.), Interactions between animals and humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity (1-18). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110545623-001

The Theatres of Gaius Curio and the Evolution of the Baroque (2017)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (in press). The Theatres of Gaius Curio and the Evolution of the Baroque. In P. Fane-Saunders (Ed.), Architecture and Text. Cambridge Universuty Press

The Cult Statues of the Pantheon (2017)
Journal Article
Thomas, E. (2017). The Cult Statues of the Pantheon. The Journal of Roman Studies, 107, 146-212. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435817000314

This article reconsiders the possible statuary of the Pantheon in Rome, both in its original Augustan form and in its later phases. It argues that the so-called ‘Algiers Relief’ has wrongly been connected with the Temple of Mars Ultor and is in fact... Read More about The Cult Statues of the Pantheon.

Roman Architecture as Art? (2015)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (2015). Roman Architecture as Art?. In B. Borg (Ed.), A Companion to Roman Art (344-364). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118886205.ch18

The most influential English-language authority on Roman architecture in the last hundred years consistently emphasized how Roman builders were preoccupied above all with practical solutions to practical problems. The traditional focus on exterior or... Read More about Roman Architecture as Art?.

The beauties of architecture. (2015)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (2015). The beauties of architecture. In P. Destrée, & P. Murray (Eds.), A companion to ancient aesthetics (274-290). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119009795.ch18

This chapter starts by considering notions of architectural beauty in Flavian Rome. It explores the aesthetic criteria attested by Vitruvius, their roots in Greek Hellenistic theory, and their legacy for later architectural aesthetics, but also highl... Read More about The beauties of architecture..

On the Sublime in architecture (2014)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (2014). On the Sublime in architecture. In J. Elsner, & M. Meyer (Eds.), Art and rhetoric in Roman culture (37-88). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511732317.004