Abstract
Giambattista Vico was deeply impressed by Herodotus's report that the Egyptians ‘divided all of the world's history into three ages: (1) the age of the gods, (2) the age of heroes, and (3) the age of men.’1 This thought is fundamental in Vico's analysis of the metaphysics, the institutions and the languages which emerged from poetic and archetypal sources in the first two ages to form the basis of the first collective urban cultures in the third. This paper explores the parallel emergence of architectural forms essential in the urban culture which, albeit in a highly evolved condition, we inhabit even today.
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