Greek Architecture Flashcards
Single storey dwellings prominent in the Minoan to Mycenaean age with a central room and porticoed entrance; columns supported roof; bedroom
Megaron
3 types of Greek orders
- Doric
- Ionic
- Corinthian
Name of the region/peninsula of Athens?
Attica
Walls of large stones without mortar and on clay bedding. Prominent in Minoan to Mycenaean age
Cyclopean Walls
The prominent circular moulding supporting the abacus of an Doric or Tuscan capital
Annulet Entablature Echinus Stria Metope
Echinus
A rounded channel or groove
Annulet Fluting Echinus Stria Abacus
Stria
also called Flute
The upper part of a column, just above the shaft and below the projecting part of the capital, when differentiated by a molding, groove, or the omission of fluting.
Necking Fluting Annulet Stria Abacus
Necking
An encircling band, molding or fillet, on a capital or shaft of a column
Echinus Stria Annulet Fluting Abacus
Annulet
A decorative motif consisting of a series of long, rounded, parallel grooves, as on the shaft of a classical column.
Echinus Stria Necking Annulet Fluting
Fluting
One of the vertical blocks separating the metopes in a Doric frieze, typically having two vertical grooves or glyphs on its face, and two chamfers or hemiglyphs at the sides.
Zophorus Mutule Regula Triglyphs Karyatides
Triglyphs
A projecting flat block under the corona of a Doric cornice, corresponding to the modillion of other orders
Zophorus Mutule Regula Triglyphs Karyatides
Mutule
A frieze bearing carved figures of a people or animals.
Zophorus Mutule Regula Triglyphs Karyatides
Zophorus
A fillet beneath the taenia in a Doric entrance, corresponding to a triglyph above and from which guttae are supended. Also known as guttae band.
Zophorus Mutule Regula Triglyphs Karyatides
Regula
A sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head.
Zophorus Mutule Regula Triglyphs Karyatides
Karyatides (Maiden of Karyai)
English translation of thalamus
Vault Inner Chamber Brain Kitchen Wall
Inner Chamber / Bedroom / Sleeping quarters
shshshAge and periods of ancient Greece (timeline)
Neolthic Peiriod (6000-3000 BC)
Bronze Age (3000 – 1100 BC)
Minoan Age (2700-1400 BC)
Mycenaean Age (1700 – 1100 BC)
The Dark Ages/Homeric Age (1100 – 800 BC) Archaic Period (800 – 480 BC) Classical Period (500 – 323 BC) Hellenistic Period (323 – 31 BC)
shshshAge and periods of ancient Greece (timeline)
Neolthic Peiriod (6000-3000 BC)
Bronze Age (3000 – 1100 BC)
Minoan Age (2700-1400 BC)
Mycenaean Age (1700 – 1100 BC)
The Dark Ages/Homeric Age (1100 – 800 BC) Archaic Period (800 – 480 BC) Classical Period (500 – 323 BC) Hellenistic Period (323 – 31 BC)
Ages and periods of Ancient Greece (6000-31 BC)
Neolithic Period (6000-3000 BC)
Bronze Age (3000 – 1100 BC)
Minoan Age (2700-1400 BC)
Mycenaean Age (1700 – 1100 BC)
The Dark Ages/Homeric Age (1100 – 800 BC)
Archaic Period (800 – 480 BC)
Classical Period (500 – 323 BC)
Hellenistic Period (323 – 31 BC)
