Greek architecture Exam Questions and Answers Already Passed
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Greek architecture
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Greek architecture Exam Questions and Answers Already Passed
Temenos - Answers The sacred area or enclosure surrounding a classical greek temple
Propylaea - Answers A monumental gateway to a sacred enclosure, fortification, town or square
Parthenon - Answers Built in honor of athena, the city's...
Greek architecture Exam Questions and Answers Already Passed
Temenos - Answers The sacred area or enclosure surrounding a classical greek temple
Propylaea - Answers A monumental gateway to a sacred enclosure, fortification, town or square
Parthenon - Answers Built in honor of athena, the city's patron goddess. Used the proportion 2n+1 in
determining the number of columns on the sides of the temple. Where n equals number of columns at
front
Ictinus and callicrates - Answers Architects of the parthenon
Naos or cella - Answers Principal chamber, enclosed part of the temple where the cult image was kept
Pronaos or anticum - Answers Open vestibule before the cella
Epinaos or posticum - Answers Rear vestibule
Opisthodomos - Answers A small room in the cella as for a treasury
Acroterium - Answers A pedestal for a sculpture or ornament at the apex or at each of the lower corners
of a pediment
Pediment - Answers A wide, low-pitched gable surmounting a colonnade or a major division of a facade
Tympanum - Answers The triangular space enclosed by the horizontal and raking cornices of a pediment,
often recessed and decorated with sculpture
Stylobate - Answers A course of masonry forming the foundation for a row of columns, especially the
outermost colonnade of a classical temple
Stereobate - Answers A solid mass of masonry visible above ground level and serving as the foundation
of a building especially the platform forming the substructure of a classical temple. Also called
crepidoma, podium.
Acropolis - Answers City on the height. A stronghold or fortress constructed on higher ground than the
surrounding urban fabric
Greek temples - Answers Chief building during the hellenic period
Lion's gate - Answers Part of the citadel palace of agamemnon, cyclopeab walls of boulders were eased
into alignment with pebbles.
Megaron - Answers Single storey dwelling with a central room, and porticoed entrance, columns
supporting roof
Thalamus - Answers Bedroom in a megaron
, Cyclopean wall - Answers Walls with large stones without mortar, on clay bedding
Greek architecture - Answers Architecture with Perfected proportions, refined treatment, based on
mathematical proportions, sophisticated optical corrections for perspective
Limestone and marble - Answers Prime Materials for greek buildings
Bronze or iron pins - Answers Blocks of stones were held in place with these set into molten lead
Aegean - Answers Period in greek architecture with rough and massive structures, use of corbelled
arches, cyclopean walls, and capitals with square abacus and circular bulbous echinus
Treasury of atreus - Answers A tholos built outside the city during the aegean period built for kings
symbolizing wealth and power
Tholos - Answers Great beehive tombs for kings as monumental symbols of wealth and power
Dromos - Answers The passageway or entrance to a tholos
Vaulted chamber - Answers A chamber in a tholos prior to entering the burial chamber
Burial chamber - Answers The chamber where the king is buried in a tholos
Hellenic - Answers Period in greek architecture relating to history, culture and art, with the temple as
the chief building type built with stone, timber, and terra cotta. Construction was columnar and
trabeated and with the use of marble.
Hellenistic - Answers Greek architecture period where culture was modified by foreign elements.
Diversion from religious to civic building types, later became an inspiration for roman architecture.
Layout of buildings were symmetrical and orderly. Moldings were used for decorations
East - Answers Where temple entrances face
Entasis - Answers Slight convex curve in the shaft of a column
Deepen toward the top - Answers Optical correction for flutes
Curves upward - Answers Optical correction for podium
Taper toward the top - Answers Optical correction for columns
Angle inwards and thicker than others - Answers Optical correction for columns at the corner
Distyle in antis - Answers Having two columns in front between antae
Anta - Answers Rectangular pier or pilaster formed by thickening the end of a projecting wall
Prostyle - Answers Having a portico on the front only
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