Architecture 9/23

The Greek Temple: A house of the god or gods

Important Features:

• Access Ramp

• Entablature

• Corner Acroterion (Water Spout)

• Pediment

• Acroterion

• Roof Timberwork

• Terracotta Tiles

• Antefixes

• Orthostat

• Peristyle

• Naos/Cells

Naos or Cella: Inner chamber of a Classical temple which contained the statue of the god or goddess

Colomade: A single or multiple rows of columns which create a porch at the ends of a Classical temple

Drum: Any of the cylindrical stone blocks composing a column that is not a monolith

Entablature: Horizontal structure aright above the columns in a Classical temple consisting of the architrave, the frieze, and cornice

Pediment: Low pitched gable end enclosing the attic space of a temple consisting of the cornice, tympanum and the raking cornice

Tympanum: Interior part of the pediment between the lower cornice and the upper of raking cornice, often containing sculptured images from mythology

The Classical Orders

Ionic Order - Mid 6th Century BCE in Ionia in Turkey

Volute: Spiral scroll characteristic of Ionic capitals and also used in Corinthian and composite capitals

Frieze: A continuous band of decorative sculpture at the upper portion of the entablature in a Greek temple

Vitruvius describes this time as feminine

Doric Order

Column Shaft: Main portion of a column

Capital: Uppermost, broadened portion of a column

Metope: A rectangular sculpted stonework depicting a mythological scene

Triglyph: A stone grooved to form 3 vertical linear lines

Polychromy: The practice of using multiple colors to decorate sculptures, architecture, and other art

Corinthian Order

Leaves and greenery were its major distinction

Foundation of Democracy

Bouleuterion: Roofed meeting place which housed the boule or council of a Greek