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Miller  \nIN 1937 THE DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS instituted a Ph.D. program in classical archaeology. It was intended to give expression to those remains of antiquity which could not be studied solely through the philological curriculum for which the University of California was already justly recognized.  \nIn 1967 a review by the then Dean of the Graduate Division, Sanford “Sandy” Elberg, revealed that two Ph.D. degrees had been awarded during the 30-year existence of the classical archaeology program. The dean was not impressed. The Department of Classics decided that an excavation in a classical land would bolster the program and attract students of a quality that would insure their passage through the demanding program. The excavation site chosen was Nemea in Greece. Since I joined the Berkeley faculty only after that decision, Ido not know all the factors that entered into this choice, although the Sanctuary of Zeus, which was the religious focus of the Nemean Games, must have been an attraction. Those games were, like the more famous games at Olympia, one of a cycle of four “stephanitic”games in Ancient Greece. Each of these games offered only a crown of vegetal matter as token of victory, and the most famous athletes were those who won the circuit with crowns of olive at Olympia, laurel at Delphi, pine at Isthmia, and wild celery at Nemea. These four festivals also offered an internationally recognized safe passage through enemy territory for athletes and spectators who were attending the games. This principle of a regularly recurring truce and the history of its successes and failures as expressed at Nemea may have played a role in the selection of Nemea.  \nIn any event, excavations have continued annually since 1973 and resulted in the creation of, among other things, a research center for California faculty and students, a museum and park for the display of the antiquities discovered, and the revival of the ancient  \nFig. 1. Former Chancellor Albert Bowker at the city limits of Ancient Nemea, 1996.  \ngames for the first time in 1996 when former chancellors Bowker (Fig. 1) and Tien ran in the ancient stadium together with 669 other people from 29 different countries. Chancellor Berdahl was one of the 752 runners from 45 countries at the Second Modern Nemead held June 3-4, 2000. The excavations have also helped to revitalize the Ph.D. program in classical archaeology.  \nWhatever other reasons played a role in the selection of Nemea, I must believe that one was the existence of three columns of the Temple of Zeus that had been standing since their erection in about 330 B.C. The temple and  \nCHRONICLE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA • Fall 2000  \nFig. 2. Lithograph showing the Temple of Nemean Zeus from the southwest in 1766.  \nits three columns have been known since travellers began to visit Greece in the eighteenth century (Fig. 2),1 and the drums of the other columns lying scattered where they fell have frequently caused visitors to speculate on the possibility of a reconstruction of them (Fig. 3) .2 It was only in 1966, however, that a study of the temple was published that established many of the details of its architecture.3 As a result, the Temple of Nemean Zeus4 began to take its place as a landmark in the history of architecture, for it was constructed at the end of the Classical period and the beginning of the Hellenistic period, and it exhibits both traditional  \nFig. 3. Aerial view of the Temple of Nemean Zeus in 1977.  \nStephen G. Miller • THE TEMPLE OF NEMEAN ZEUS, A CALIFORNIA LANDMARK  \nmotifs and innovative foreshadowings of the future of Greek religious architecture.  \nThus, for example, the Doric columns of the exterior (Fig. 4) are extremely tall and slender in their proportions with a height of 6.34 lower column diameters. The columns of the Temple of Apollo—200 years earlier than the Temple of Zeus—at nearby Corinth are 4.15 diameters in heigh","cbCaitoGZsxb6zaZ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitoGZsxb6zaZ","pdf",464358,12,"English","# Historical background of the Nemea excavation decision\n## Origins and outcomes of the classical archaeology program\n## The Temple of Nemean Zeus as an architectural landmark\n## Architectural features and proposed reconstruction","[{\"question\":\"Why did the University of California’s Department of Classics choose Nemea as an excavation site?\",\"answer\":\"The program needed stronger student attraction and scholarly justification, and Nemea offered a meaningful religious and athletic context tied to Zeus as well as the Sanctuary focus of the Nemean Games and their historic practice of truce.\"},{\"question\":\"What major results followed the excavations after 1973?\",\"answer\":\"Annual excavations continued, creating a research center, establishing a museum and park for discovered antiquities, helping revitalize the Ph.D. program, and enabling revivals of ancient games in modern settings.\"},{\"question\":\"What architectural characteristics make the Temple of Nemean Zeus a landmark?\",\"answer\":\"The temple combines traditional Doric exterior tall, slender proportions with Hellenistic features, including mixing Corinthian and Ionic columns in the interior colonnades, and it includes distinctive elements such as a sunken crypt and careful material choices like Pentelic marble for key water-collecting parts.\"}]","THE TEMPLE OF NEMEAN ZEUS - A CALIFORNIA LANDMARK | PDF"]