Ancient Greek architecture came from the Greeks, or Hellenes, whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and...
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well as in Greece itself following its independence in 1821. It revived many aspects of the forms and styles of ancient Greek architecture, in particular...
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Ancient Roman architecture adopted the external language of classical ancient Greek architecture for the purposes of the ancient Romans, but was different...
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Ancient Greek art stands out among that of other ancient cultures for its development of naturalistic but idealized depictions of the human body, in which...
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("Magna Graecia"), wherever there were Greek colonies, and the establishment of Greek culture. Ancient Greek architecture was of very regular form, the construction...
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largely intact. Ancient Greek religion Art in ancient Greece Glossary of architecture Greek culture Greek Revival architecture Ancient Greek technology List...
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Classical order (redirect from Orders of architecture)
to the present from Ancient Greek and Ancient Roman civilization, the architectural orders are the styles of classical architecture, each distinguished...
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Ancient Greece (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th...
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This is the list of ancient architectural records consists of record-making architectural achievements of the Greco-Roman world from c. 800 BC to 600 AD...
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classical architecture: Classical architecture – architecture of classical antiquity, that is, ancient Greek architecture and the architecture of ancient Rome...
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for privacy in Greek society, which ultimately led to the design and use of vestibules in Greek homes. In ancient Roman architecture, where the term...
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ancient Greece is the main surviving type of fine ancient Greek art as, with the exception of painted ancient Greek pottery, almost no ancient Greek painting...
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Classical society Ancient Greek society Roman society Classical religion Religion in ancient Greece Greek mythology Religion in Ancient Rome Roman mythology...
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ecclesia or ekklesia (Greek: ἐκκλησία) was the assembly of the citizens in city-states of ancient Greece. The ekklesia of ancient Athens is particularly...
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use of phallic architecture and sculpture in ancient Greek society can also be seen in sites such as Nea Nikomedeia in northern Greece. Archaeologists...
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Ancient Greek technology developed during the 5th century BC, continuing up to and including the Roman period, and beyond. Inventions that are credited...
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domes. Record-holding roofs in antiquity Ancient Greek architecture Ancient Roman architecture List of Ancient Greek temples Hodge 1960, p. 41 Ulrich 2007...
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Doric order (redirect from Doric architecture)
The Doric order is one of the three orders of ancient Greek and later Roman architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian...
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Ancient Elite". Art 230: Ancient Art Digital Exhibit. John H. Oakley (2012). "Greek Art and Architecture, Classical: Classical Greek Pottery," in Neil Asher...
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sculpture, Olympic Games, Western philosophy, ancient Greek law, Greek mythology, Greek food and the Greek Alphabet. The following is a list of inventions...
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This is a list of ancient monoliths found in all types of Greek and Roman buildings. It contains monoliths quarried, but not moved quarried and moved...
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Ancient Indian architecture Ancient Indian architecture ranges from the Indian Bronze Age to around 800 CE. By this endpoint Buddhism in India had greatly...
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understanding of architecture and, indeed, of civilization itself. From circa 850 BC to circa 300 AD, ancient Greek culture flourished on the Greek mainland,...
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architectura; from Ancient Greek ἀρχιτέκτων (arkhitéktōn) 'architect'; from ἀρχι- (arkhi-) 'chief' and τέκτων (téktōn) 'creator'. Architectural works, in the...
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Ottomans and the following trends of Greek migration to the Diaspora, Greek architecture was concentrated mainly on the Greek Orthodox churches of the Diaspora...
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Ancient Greek in classical antiquity, before the development of the common Koine Greek of the Hellenistic period, was divided into several varieties. Most...
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century BC Model of Ancient Greek, Temple of Olympian Zeus, Agrigento, Sicily, original 5th century BC, Agrigento museum Ancient Greek atlas from the Temple...
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Acroterion (category Ancient Greek architecture)
akroteria.” Ancient Greek acroterion as Nike, by Paionios, 421 BC, marble, Archaeological Museum of Olympia, Olympia, Greece Ancient Greek acroterion of...
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‹See Tfd›Greek: Μακεδονία), also called Macedon (/ˈmæsɪdɒn/ MASS-ih-don), was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, which...
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architecture used both, but Greek and Roman architecture used the concave style almost exclusively. Fluting was very common in formal ancient Greek architecture...
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