Archaic Greece, Doric architecture
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9 terms
Latin | English |
|---|---|
| Doric order |  origin; olympia. 700BCE used for religious architecture |
| Temple of Hera at olympia | 600BCE oldest example of doric order. |
| cella | central core, the chief room of a Greek temple, where the statue of the god was located and, frequently, the temple's treasure was kept. |
| pronaos | The space, or porch, in front of the cella, or naos, of an ancient Greek temple |
| opisthodomos | In Greek temples, the entrance porch or room at the back. |
| peristyle | area of columns around temple, never used for any structure except for temples |
| flutes | verticle grooves in the shafts separated from one another by raised edges called arrises |
| Temple of Artemis At Corfu | 580 BCE octastyle, solved angle problem by slightly altering and straightening the corner end columns. has a triangular pediment with sculpture on it, pinwheel pose. |
| The temple of Hera 1 at paestum | 650 BCE. center of the city. 9x18, not and even number of columns! columns down the middle of the cella and two doors from the pronaos. |
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