Margaret M Miles

Margaret Miles is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine. Her research interests focus on how religion and ritual shaped architecture in ancient Greece and Italy with particular emphasis on Greek temples and religion during the 5th century BCE and in how the cosmic views of Presocratic philosophers (especially Pythagoras and Empedocles) helped to shape the design of western Greek temples.

Margaret Miles is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine. Her research interests focus on how religion and ritual shaped architecture in ancient Greece and Italy with particular emphasis on Greek temples and religion during the 5th century BCE and in how the cosmic views of Presocratic philosophers (especially Pythagoras and Empedocles) helped to shape the design of western Greek temples. See less