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• Pronaos: The entrance-hall (porch) to the temple proper or cella.

• Naos (Cella in Roman ): usually the larger of the interior rooms, housed the cult statue.

• Opisthodomos. Porch at the rear of the Naos, sometimes also a back entrance.

• Adyton: Used as a treasury, a place limited to priest or priestesses.

• Stereobate: The foundation of the temple, • Stylobate: The the upper part of which as a

platform or foundation of the row of columns• Anta (Antis): A pier produced by the

thickening of a wall at its termination, treated architecturally.

• When there are columns between two antae (antis) then it is referred to as columns in Antis

• stereo (solid), bates (walker), stylos (column)

General Feature of a Greek Temple

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Greek Architecture Evolution of Greek Temple - Mycenaean

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Greek Temples:

• Antis

•Anta

•Double Anta

• Prostyle

•Amphiprostyle

• Peristyle

• Peripteral

• Pseudo Peripteral

• Dipteral

• Pseudo dipteral

• Hexastyle

• Octastyle

• Tholos

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It is essentially the megaron (the Mycenaean domestic structure which became a temple) used as a temple.

Evolution of Greek Temple - Antis

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There is a slight increase in size with the presence of Prostyle

Prostyle: Free standing columns located in front of the building

Evolution of Greek Temple – Prostyle

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Greek Architecture Evolution of Greek Temple – Peristyle

• The peristyle is complete. • The temple has incorporated the monumentality

of the Egyptian temple while treating it in terms of human proportions,

• It has become symmetric. • It has permanent materials in all parts of the

structure.

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Greek Architecture Evolution of Greek Temple – Peristyle

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Greek Architecture Evolution of Greek Temple – Peristyle

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Greek Architecture Evolution of Greek Temple – Tholos

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Greek Architecture 3 Greek Orders