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Title: Ancient Greek Architecture


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Ancient Greek Architecture
  • By Lauren Dolen

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Types of Architecture
  • Houses
  • Made of mud bricks
  • Poor people had very simple structures
  • Rich people had more rooms and a courtyard
  • Floors and walls
  • Stones, tiles or pebbles

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  • Temples
  • Rectangular shape
  • Entrance at one end, one or two rooms
  • Spaces separated with pillars
  • Served a homes for god or goddess

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Types of Temples
  • Temple in antis
  • Peripteral
  • Prostyle
  • Double Anta Temple
  • Diperal
  • Amphiprostyle
  • Tholos Mompteral

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Styles of Columns
  • Doric
  • Used in main land Greece
  • Used by Spartans
  • More basic in design
  • Ionic
  • Evolved in Ionia on eastern shore of the Aegean
    Sea
  • Thinner and more elegant
  • Corinthian
  • Seldom used in Greek civilization
  • Ancient Rome
  • Top is very elaborate and decorated with acanthus
    leaves

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Doric
  • the earliest of the 3 organizational order
  • 4 to 5 meters high
  • Flat on top
  • Very sturdy
  • Used in the famous Parthenon

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Ionic
  • Thin and elegant
  • Usually 8 to 9 meters high
  • Decorated with a scroll-like design
  • Founded in eastern Greece and the islands
  • This design was used in the temples of Apollo at
    Didyma, Athena Nike, and the Erechtheum

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Corinthian
  • Has leaf-like designs on the top
  • Most ornate of the classic order of architecture
  • Found in the temple of Apollo at Bassae and the
    Temple of Zeus at Athens

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Famous American Buildings
  • White House
  • Ionic Columns
  • Lincoln Memorial
  • Doric Columns
  • United States Capital Building
  • Corinthian Columns

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Architecture Quiz
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Resources
  • Greek Architecture
  • http//libary.advanced.org/10098/greek.htm
  • http//crystalinks.com/greekarchitecture.html
  • http//www.ancientgreece.com/art/art.html
  • http//oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/educaiton/p
    rojects/webunits/greecerome/Greecearch3.html
  • http//historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/architectur
    e/archaic.htm
  • Greek Temples
  • http//saingissues.com/culture.html
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