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Richer, Jean. (1994). The Sacred Geography of the Greeks. [Note: Speculative arguments for astrological alignments of classical Greek temples. Unreliable. Jean Richer was not a Hellenistic scholar. He was quite open that his viewpoint arose from "intuitive insight/perception." Some of his ideas actually came to him in his dreams about Apollo. His book (which originates from his conclusions formed in the 1950s) is simply speculative argument in the extreme. Part of the problem is his argument for a system of zodiacal projection being established circa 800 BCE. Needless to say there is no evidence that an evenly divided 12-constellation division of the ecliptic had been invented by the Babylonians at that date. Indeed the evidence indicates the contrary. He not only believed that Greece was saturated with zodiacal geometry but that the whole Mediterranean world was also saturated with zodiacal geometry. His brother Lucien Richer took up this aspect in his 1977 article (latter published as a pamphlet) "The St Michael-Apollo Axis: A Study in Sacred Geography." Life dates for Jean Richer: 1915-1992.]