Parthenon frieze – Greek architecture
Parthenon frieze - seated goddesses What is on the Parthenon frieze? On the Parthenon's frieze, Pheidias carved a long procession of Athenians, with girls in the front, bringing a new [...]
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Parthenon metopes – Greek architecture
Metope from the Parthenon On the metopes, just under the roof, Phidias carved the battle between Lapiths (men) and centaurs (the Centauromachy), Greeks against Amazons (Amazonomachy), the gods against the [...]
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Parthenon pediment – Ancient Greece
Parthenon pediment On the front of the Parthenon, in the triangular pediment, Pheidias carved the contest between Athena and Poseidon to be the main god of the city of Athens, [...]
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Parthenon columns – optical illusions
Parthenon columns, Athens The best temple ever So the architects of the Parthenon set out to make it the best temple ever. Most Greek temples had six columns across the [...]
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Parthenon – Ancient Greek temples
Parthenon, Athens The Parthenon was a temple to Athena built on top of the highest hill in Athens, the Acropolis (Acropolis means High City). In the Late Bronze Age, about [...]
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Stone Age Greek architecture
Before the New Stone Age, people had lived in caves, but around 6000 BC people living in Greece began to build houses for themselves instead. At first they built small houses out [...]
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What are triglyphs and metopes?
Greek temple at Agrigento, Sicily What are triglyphs and metopes? Most Greek temples have a pattern under the pediment known as triglyphs and metopes. The triglyphs alternate with the metopes [...]
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Minoan and Mycenaean architecture
Bronze Age palace in Knossos, Crete Around 1700 BC, a great earthquake shook the island of Crete and knocked down the palaces (or big houses) that many people had been [...]
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What’s the Ionic order?
Ionic order: the parts of an Ionic temple A new way to build temples Around 500 BC, Greek architectural styles changed so that instead of building temples in the old [...]
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Houses in ancient Greece
Ancient Greek houses: foundations at Alkyrnas, in western Greece near Patras What is a courtyard house? Beginning in the Bronze Age, and continuing through to modern times, most Greek houses, [...]
