Greek Architecture Vocabulary

• Doric• Ionic• Corinthian• Entablature• Pediment• Cornice• Frieze• Iktinos• Kallikrates

• Peristyle• Entasis• Refinements• Propylaia• Parthenon• Pan-Athenaic Procession• Erectheion• Pheidias

Temple of Hera II, Paestum, Italy, 470-460 BCE

Plan, Temple of Hera II

• Naos or Cella

• Pronaos• Stylobate• Peristyle

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Temple of Artemis, Corfu, 600-580 BCE

•Pediment

Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, Greece, 500-490 BCE

Detail, Temple of Aphaia

• Doric capital• Triglyph• Metope• Dentilation (dentils)• Entasis

Model, Temple of Aphaia

Wounded Soldiers, Temple of Aphaia

Temple of Zeus at Olympia, Pediment Detail, ca. 470-460 BCE

The Acropolis• Ca. 530 BCE Construction of the Archaic Acropolis• 490 BCE Victory of the Athenians over the Persians

at the battle of Marathon• 490 BCE Construction of the older Parthenon• 480 BCE Persian sack of Athens by Xerxes• 479 BCE Persians expelled from Athens• Oath of Plataia, Delian League• 447 BCE construction of the new Parthenon

The Acropolis, Athens, Greece

Model of the Acropolis

Iktinos and Kallikrates, The Parthenon, 447-438 BCE, Classical

Reconstruction of the Athena Parthenos by Phidias,

438 BCE

Phidias, The Ionic Frieze,Pan-Athenaic Procession

Phidias, Ionic Freize, East end, Presentation of the Peplos to Athena

Phidias, Metopes, Battle of the Lapiths and the Centaurs

Phidias, East Pediment: The Pantheon, Birth of Athena

Phidias, West Pediment: The Contest between Athena and Poseidon

The Erectheion, 421-405 BCE

The Porch of the Maidens, 421-405 BCE

•Caryatids

Kallikrates, Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis, 427-424 BCE

• Ionic Order

Pheidias, Nike adjusting her

sandal, Temple of Athena Nike,

Acropolis, 410 BCE

•Parapet•Balustrade

Polykleitos the Younger, Theater, Classical, Epidauros, 350 BCE

Altar of Zeus, Pergamon, ca. 175 BCE

Monument to Lysikrates, Classical, Athens, 334 BCE