ABSTRACT
This chapter presents significant examples of a wave of ‘Hellenomania’ in current British architecture and sculpture. It offers a discussion of Robert Adam’s Sackler Library, Oxford, which sports a Grecian figured frieze by Alexander Stoddart as does George Saumarez Smith’s Richard Green Gallery, Bond Street, London, and Craig Hamilton’s Bath House, Williamstrip Park. Other works discussed in this chapter include Quinlan and Francis Terry’s Maitland Robinson Library at Downing College, Cambridge, with its Greek Doric portico; John Simpson’s Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, which includes Stoddart’s statues of winged, torch-bearing genii as described by Homer at the Palace of Alcinous; Simpson’s dining room at Caius College, Cambridge, which recalls Ictinus’s Temple of Apollo at Bassae with its unique Ionic and Corinthian orders; and the theatre in Simpson’s quadrangle at Eton College, which follows the Ecclesiasterion at Priene.
