pertaining to Greek history, culture, and art from the time of Alexander the Great’s death in 323 BC.

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Masonry technique was well developed. Comprised of boulder-like stones, used in fortifications, to coarse or fine ashlar of heavy blocks.

1. horizontal section of a classical order that rests on the columns, usually composed of a cornice, frieze and architrave.

2. the triangular space enclosed by the horizontal and raking cornices of a pediment, often recessed and decorated with sculpture.

3. a wide and low-pitched gable surmounting a colonnade or a major division of a façade.

4. a pedestal for a sculpture or ornament at the roof apex or at each of the lower corners of a pediment.

Red: any of the panels, either plain or decorated

Blue

Yellow: a raised band or fillet separating the frieze from the architrave on a Doric entablature.

Green: corresponding to a triglyph above and from which the guttae are suspended.

oldest and simplest of the five classical orders and was developed in Greece in the 7th century BC and later imitated by the Romans.

Developed in the Greek colonies of Asia Minor in the 6th century BC characterized especially by the spiral volutes of its capital

The most ornate of the 5 classical orders, developed by the Greeks in the 4th century BC

Red: the flat slab forming the top of a column capital

Yellow: the upper part of a column, just above the shaft and below the projecting part of the capital.

Orange: the prominent circular moulding supporting the abacus.

Orange: the prominent circular moulding supporting the abacus.

Blue: a rounded channel or groove.

Green

Pink: series of closely spaced, small, rectangular blocks forming a moulding or projecting beneath the coronas.

Black: one of the three horizontal bands making up the architrave in the Ionic order.

green: a spiral, scroll-like ornament, as one on the capital of the Ionic, Corinthian and Composite orders.

grey

Yellow: an ornamental bracket, usually in the form of a scroll with acanthus, used in series beneath the corona.

Green: a spiral ornament, as any of the volutes spring.

Blue: an ornament, as on the Corinthian capital, pattered after the large, toothed leaves of a Mediterranean plant of the same name.

Red: the uppermost member of a classical entablature

Yellow: the middle part of the entablature, often decorated with sculpture in low relief.

Blue: the lowermost division of a entablature, resting directly on the column capitals.

It was the gateway into the acropolis.

picture / painting gallery

most embellished, complex and the last of the Periclean buildings. It is best known for its "caryatid" porch on the south facing the Parthenon.

caryatids- woman figure columns

a kindred type to the theatre, where musicians perform.

Red: a wedge-shaped section of seats between two stepped passageways.

Orange: an aisle between the lower and upper tiers of seats, concentric with the orchestra and the outer wall and communicating with the radial aisles.

Yellow: center

Blue: the two wings flanking and projecting forward from the skene of a theatre containing the apartments of the actors

Violet: front part of the stage where actors performed.

Pink: faces the audience, forming the background before which performances were given.

Town square, center of social and business life

A long colonnaded building and was used for public places and shelters at religious shrines.

a senate house for the chief dignitaries of the city. A place where distinguished citizens will be entertained

a council house and a covered meeting place for elected councils.

A race course where games in ancient Greece were celebrated

for horse and chariot racing.

An ancient Greek wrestling school