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PARTS OF A GREEK TEMPLE
Naos (cella in Latin) room in which the statue of the god was kept.
Pronaos porch
Opisthodomos back porch
Peristyle encircling colonnade
Stylobate top step of the platform on which the temple is built
Pediment the triangle formed by the roof at each end of the temple. Sometimes filled with sculpture.
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DORIC ORDER
* Massive and simple* columns are topped by a cushion like, undecorated
capital, which is supported bya plain undecorated architrave* The architrave supports the
frieze which consists of alternating triglyphs and
metopes* There was one triglyph over
each column and onebetween each pair of columns
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Temple of Hera at Olympia ca 600 BC
Destroyed by an earthquake in the 4th century and never rebuilt. It is the start of the Olympic flame in modern times for the Olympic games.
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Temple of Hephaestus ca 415 BC
One of the best preserved examples of Greek architectureIt is located at NW side of the Athenian Agora (gathering place)
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ParthenonArchitects: Ictinus and Callicrates 448-432 BC
Temple to Athena at the Acropolis. It is the perfect embodiment of Doric architecturealthough it contains some Ionic elements (an undivided frieze and 4 Ionic columns)
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IONIC ORDER* More delicate and ornate
* Columns are slender restingon elaborate bases
* the capitals were scroll like (volutes)
* The frieze was undivided andsometimes decorated
with a continuous band of relief sculpture
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Porch of the Maidens 6 Caryatids used as columns
South side of the Erechtheum
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CORINTHIAN ORDER* a version of the Ionic order
* the capital is very elaborate and decorated with acanthus leaves
* invented at the end of the 5th c BC
*This order was used a great deal in Hellenistic Greece and Roman
times
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