What are fluted columns?
Fluted columns from the Forum in Rome What does it mean to be fluted? Most Greek and Roman columns (but not all) were fluted. That means they had narrow channels [...]
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Early Bronze Age Greek Architecture
Drawing of a megaron house One important Early Bronze Age site is the town of Lerna. Lerna has a lot of small stone houses, and one house that is larger than [...]
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What is the Greek Doric order?
Doric temple at Agrigento, in Sicily. The plain square capitals with triglyphs and metopes over them show this is in the Doric order. When did the Doric style get started? [...]
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Greek Corinthian columns
A Corinthian column capital (from the Pantheon in Rome) A new type of architecture By 400 BC, Greek architects had added a third type of column to the old Doric [...]
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Classical Greek Architecture
Classical Greek architecture: Parthenon, Athens From Archaic to Classical There is no really sharp change in the style of architecture between the Archaic and the Classical periods. One blends gradually [...]
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Rhythm in Greek Temples
Temple of Zeus at Cyrene (North Africa) Greek architects weren't just copying their old wooden temples for the fun of it though, or just because they couldn't think of any [...]
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Greek architraves and columns
A Greek architrave: the stones running along the tops of the columns. This is the Temple of Hera - Agrigento, Sicily (ca. 450 BC) Greek temples on platforms Greek architects [...]
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Archaic Greece – Stone temples
Temple of Herakles, Agrigento, Sicily In early Archaic Greek temples, the columns and the roof were made of wood. To keep the wood from rotting, Greek builders put a flat stone under [...]
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Archaic Greek architecture – the first Greek temples
Temple of Hera, Paestum, Italy. There were no more kings in Greece after the Dark Ages, and so there were no more palaces or fancy tombs. Instead, people began to [...]
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What is tyranny? Definition
Kritios Boy statue from the time of the tyranny in Athens In Greece and West Asia, mainly in what is now Turkey, there was a period of time around 650-400 [...]
