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Greek Architecture
The architecture of ancient Greece is represented by buildings in the sanctuaries and cities of mainland Greece, the Aegean islands, southern Italy and Sicily, and Turkey. Monumental Greek architecture began in the archaic period, flourished through the classical and Hellenistic periods, and saw the first of many revivals when the Roman Empire started to create works like the Greeks. The roots of Greek architecture are mostly in the Houses, Sculptures and Palaces. There are many types of architecture that we went over in class but the one type I would like to talk about it Sacred Architecture. The Greeks conceived of their gods in a human-like form, as representations of the forces and elements of the natural world. These gods and goddesses were worshiped with sacrifices made at an outdoor altar. At many sanctuaries, the altar was much older than the temple, and some sanctuaries had only an altar. The temple designed simply as a shelter or home for the cult statue and as a storehouse for offerings. Like at the Temple to Nike.
The earliest buildings in Greek architecture were the temples. Since these were solidly built and carefully maintained, they had to be replaced only if destroyed during an earth quake, nature disaster or if another civilization raided and looted the place. They Mainly focused on Doric styles on the mainland.
Doric columns stood directly on the flat pavement (the stylobate) of a temple without a base; their vertical shafts were fluted with 20 parallel concave grooves; and they were topped by a smooth capital that flared from the column to meet a square abacus at the intersection with the horizontal beam ("entablature") that they carried." Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doric_order)
But Ionic and Corinthian were the main influence in the eastern Aegean which is the present day the area between Greece and Turkey.
"Ionic columns...
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