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WorksheetsGreek & Roman Architecture
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
A style of architecture in Greek in which the beam forms the constructive feature.
Doric
Ionic
Trabeated
Pinacotheca
In greek architecture, a recess or alcove with raised seat where the disputation of the learned took place.
Doric
Ionic
Exedrae
Pinacotheca
In greek architecture, a picture gallery or a building to contain painted pictures.
Doric
Pinacotheca
Ionic
Exedrae
The chief class of building in the Hellenic period.
Churches
Temples
Agora
Forum
The steps forming the base of a columned Greek temple.
Stereobate
Crepidoma
Stylobate
Pediment
The upper step forming a platform on which a colonnade is placed.
Stereobate
Crepidoma
Stylobate
Pediment
In classical architecture, a triangular piece of wall above the entablature enclosed by raking cornices
Cella
Crepidoma
Pediment
Stylobate
Tooth like blocks in ionic and corinthian cornices.
Attic base
Flutes
Fillets
Dentils
In an Ionic Column, the lowest square member of the base of a column.
Attic Base
Flutes
Fillets
Plinth
In an Ionic Column, a small flat band between mouldings to separate them from each other.
Attic Base
Flutes
Fillets
Plinth
The vertical channeling on the shaft of a column.
Attic Base
Flutes
Fillets
Plinth
In Greek Architecture, a long colonnaded building that serves many purposes.
Basilica
Thermae
Prytaneion
Stoa
In Greek Architecture, often rectangular buildings with banked seats facing inwards.
Bouleuterion
Thermae
Prytaneion
Stoa
In Greek Architecture, building that serves as a senate house for the chief dignitaries of the city and as a place where distinguished visitors and citizens might be entertained.
Bouleuterion
Thermae
Prytaneion
Stoa
Palatial baths of Imperial Rome.
Bouleuterion
Thermae
Prytaneion
Stoa
A roman dwelling type that is four or more storeys high.
Megaron
Domus
Villas
Insula
A roman dwelling type that combined the features of an etruscan dwelling with other elements derived from the greek house.
Megaron
Domus
Villas
Insula
In Roman architecture, a range of columns surrounding a court or a temple.
Stoa
Peristyle
Atrium
Compluvium
A Roman dining room with couches on three sides.
Fresco
Mosaci
Oecus
Triclinium
A roman bedroom, but sometimes used in a less specific sense to denote other rooms.
Fresco
Mosaci
Cubiculum
Triclinium
