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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...

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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 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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