HOA1 - GREEK ARCHITECTURE

MINOAN

- bronze age civilization

- under the legendary King Minos

MYCENAEAN

- the first GREEK CIVILIZATION

PENTELIC MARBLE

- found in the quarries of MOUNT PENTELIKON

MARBLE

- facilitates exactness of line and refineement of detail

MYCENAEAN OR HELLADIC GREECE

- defense architecture

HELLENIC GREECE

- where the city state (polis) emerged as the basis of greek society

MEGARON

- domestic unit

- located inside palace complexes

- built of rubble or cut stone without mortar

- walls were coated with tstucco and floors with gypsum

MINOAN COLUMN

- were made of cypress wood

- round

- tapering downward with wide capitals

PALACE TYRINS

- the most strongly fortified hilltop citadel

- masonry is of the cyclopean type and short stretches ashlar

ROCK CUT / CHAMBER TOMB

- cut within the slope of a hilldside and approached by a passageway open to the sky

DROMOS

- passageway that open to the sky

HELLENIC PERIOD

- temples were the principal building

- colonnades

- columnar and trabeated

ENTASIS

- a slight curvature on the columns profile

HELLENISTIC PERIOD

- civic design were developed

- buildings were laid out in symmetrical lines

- arches become to appear

STOAS

- colonnade porticoes

THE ACROPOLIS

- ambitous plam of pericles

- the hill was transformed into a monument of thought art

PROYLAEA

- the imposing entrace of the acropolis

PINACOTHECA

- a picture gallery honoring the gods of greek

ATLIS, OLYMPIA

- sanctuary of the gods and the center for the worship of Zeus

- setting the first olympic games

GREEK TEMPLES

- signify a celebration of life on earth rather than afterlife shrines for god

- not built for the internal worship but with special regard to the outward effect

HYPAETHRAL

- windows were ___ wholly or partly open to the sky

TYMPANA

- triangular-shape pediment with sculpture

PRONAOS

- front portico of a greek temple

EPINAOS/OPISTHODOMOS

- rear portico of a greek temple

NAOS

- statue of a god or goddess

IN-ANTIS

- 2-4 columns at the front of the temple

AMPHI-ANTIS

- 2-4 columns at the front and rear of the temple

THOLOS

- columns encircling a round temple

PROSTYLE

- has a protico of columns at the front

AMPHI-PROSTYLE

- has portico of columns at the front and the rear

CYMA REVERSA

- water-leaf and tongue

CYMA RECTA

- honeysuckle

OVOLO

- egg and dart

ASTRAGAL

- bread and reel

TORUS

- guilloche or plait

- bundles of leaved tied by bands

CORONA

- painted with the fret ornament

DENTILS

- series of small projecting rectangular blocks under a cornice

SCOTIA

- deep hollow moulding

- CAVETTO

- simple hollow moulding

ORDER

- consists or an upright , the base and capital and the horizontal entablature

DORIC ORER

- masculine and dignified

- has no base

- has 20 flutes and arrises

IONIC ORDER

- feminine, light , delicate, elegant

- four-fronted capital

- nautilus shell and ram's horn

- has 24 flutes separated by fillets

- has an attic base

CORINTHIAN ORDER

- grandiose

- most ornate of the classical order

- architrave has 3 step bands

- 24 flutes separated by fillets

INTERCOLUMNATION

- the clear space between two adjacent columns

PARTHENON

- a supreme example of classical Greece

- dedicated to athena parthenos

- doric order

TEMPLE OF ATHENA

- dedicated to athena nike

- smallest structure in the acropolis

- ionic order

ERECHTHEION

- has cartatid porch of 6 draped female figures

ORCHESTRA

- the space between the audience and the stage

THEATRON OR CAVEA

- the audience seating space

KERKIS

- wedge shape seating space

SKENE

- stage building and dressing room

DIAZOMA

- horizontal aisle separating the lower and upper sections of theatron seatign

THEATER EPIDAURUS

- an impressive open-air theater

- governed by mathematical principles influenced by phythagorean

- excellent acoustic

AGORA

- an open place assembly

- center of social and business life

STOA OF ATTALOS

- where merchants could sell their goods

- artists could display their work

- where religous gathering could take place

BOULEUTERION

- meeting for the democratically-elected councils

- rectangular or semi-circular in plan

PRYTANEION

- town hall of a greek city-state

ODEION

- kindered type to the theater where mucisians performed

STADIUM OLYMPIA

- oldest stadium in greece

- ancient olypic games were held on this site in 776 bc

PALAESTRA

- wrestling school