Greek Architecture

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Greek Architecture
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Palace at Knossos, Crete, c. 1500 BC
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Palace at Knossos, Crete, c. 1500 BC
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Lion Gate Mycenae c. 1300 BC
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Lion Gate, Mycenae, c. 1300 BC
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Temple of Hera at Paestumc. 550 BC
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The Acropolis, Athens, Greece, c. 450BC
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Temple of Athena Nike, c. 425 BC, Kallikrates
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The Parthenon, c.440 BC-Iktinos and Kallikrates
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frieze

• In architecture this is the wide central section
  part of an entablature and may be plain in the
  Ionic or Doric order, or decorated with
  bas-reliefs.

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Erechtheion, 420 BCE
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caryatid

• a sculpted female figure serving as an
  architectural support taking the place of a
  column or a pillar supporting an entablature on
  her head.

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Porch of the Maidens, 421407 BC
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Theater at Epidauros, Greece, C. 350 BC
Polykleitos the Younger