Greek Architecture Flashcards
Acropolis
High point of the city. Used for defensive or religious purposes.
Agora
Marketplace where the business of the city occurred. Government buildings.
Stoa
Marketplace building. Located in agora.
Portico
Colonnaded porch or walkway.
Temples
Buildings for worship. Usually rectangular in shape. Colonnades addes for support. Had a stoa, pronaos, and adytum. Crepidoma steps
Thatched
Covered with a layer of straw.
Wattle and daub
Thin wood strips plastered with clay or mud
Colonnades
Rows of supporting columns
Cella
Sanctuary
Pronaos
Porch
Adytum
Second more sacred inner room in a temple
Pediments
Triangular portion of wall carrying roof
Parthenon
Famous Greek temple.
Peripteral
Surrounded by columns
Crepidoma
Stepped platform
Ambulatort
Covered walkway.
Order
Building style. denotes the style of the capital.
Doric order
Simplest of Greek column style. Had *flutings.
Concave grooves
Ionic order
Originated in eastern Greece. Spiral scroll on top of column.
Corinthian order
Capital has many mini volutes and acanthus leaves.
Capital
Crowning motif of columns
Cornice
Projecting part of entablature
Frieze
Center of entablature; horizontal of sculptured panel
Architrave
Horizontal span, directly above column
Entablature
Upper portion of order: architrave, frieze, and cornice
Triglyphs
Blocks of vertical channels spaced between metopes in frieze.
Metope
Space between triglyph on frieze
Caryatid
Female statue as columns
Masoleum
Buildings to house dead
