Greek Architecture Flashcards
What is the Temple of Hera I also called? Where is it located?
The Basilica, or Temple of Hera I (530BC)
- Located in Paestum, Italy
What is the Temple of Hera II also called? Where is it also located?
The Temple of Poseidon, or Temple of Hera II (460 BC)
- Located in Paestum, Italy
Which buildings are located in Athens, Greece?
Parthenon, Temple of Athena, Erechtheum, Temple of Olympian Zeus
Which building had the Doric Angle Conflict? What was wrong with it?
The Parthenon
- Spacing btw columns differ, every column is tilted in a diff direction, with diff spacings
- Architrave and corneous is curved
Ionic Order:
Sima Corona Dentils Architrave Capital Shaft Base
DIFFERENCE BTW STOA & AGORA
FIRST RETAIL STRIP VS. PUBLIC SPACE WHERE SOCIETY INTERACTS
What is a Caryatid
sculpted female figures serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or pillar
Agora
complex of stoas (shopping center).
- Town square, interactions and people converse
Parts of the Theater
Scene - backdrop
Proscenium - stage
Orchestra - pit in front of the auditorium before the stage
Auditorium - seating, had to carve into side of mountain/hillside into the landscape
Doric Order:
Cornice Frieze Architrave Capital Shaft Stylobate Stereobate
Who are The Dorians?
were militant, disciplined people with powerful source of tribal order
- Invaded the north about 1100 BC settled in Peloponnesus, Sparta as their center
Who are the The Ionians?
had mercantile, trading society
- Some of whom had been driven across the Aegean Sea to Asia Minor
- By the eighth century B.C. two groups had mingled and become a single though highly varied culture and they called themselves Hellenes – opposed to non speaking Greek ‘barbarians’
Who were the Hellenes
They were Greek speaking people with common culture and mythology, deeply religious, democratic City-State political unit (each identified with a God)
- comprising 2 ethnic groups: Dorians and Ionians
Corinthian Order:
Used very late in Greek Architecture and is more associated with and used in Roman Architecture
- more ornate column order and has its origin in the Ionic Order
What were temples seen as by Greeks?
House of the Gods
- symbolized perfection, set in landscape as an object
- ritual took place outside but the cult statue was housed inside.
- approached on an angle
