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This volume analyzes the birth of the earliest Greek temples through an innovative phenomenological approach, in which lived experiences are assumed as key tools of investigation. Accordingly, much space is dedicated to exploring the connections that tied the Greeks to their surroundings, as they can be found in the surviving records on the development of Greek religion, poetry, art and philosophy in periods previous or coeval to the appearance of the first temples. This framework sheds a new light on the relationship between ‘human’ and ‘divine’ in the ancient Greek world, and it suggests that the archetypal structure of temple was devised to facilitate a particular kind of experience, that of the divine. Such an experience produced a break from ordinary, profane life, but in turn it required a special awareness in order to become accessible. The findings and method of this volume, enable us to bridge once again the gap between our present day and that distant era, rediscovering our ancient past as an endless source of inspiration.