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