Greece - Temple Decoration

Question 1

What were the two areas that were decorated in a Greek Temple?

Answer 1

The pediments and friezes

Question 2

What could these sculptures be related to? ( pediments and friezes)

Answer 2

The city in which the temple was built or they could relate to the Greeks as a whole civilisation

Question 3

Pediment -

Answer 3

The triangular space at the either end of a temple was called the pediment. This could contain sculpture or be left bank

Question 4

Ionic frieze -

Answer 4

A continuous strip of stone or marble that runs around a temple. It was a good frieze to use if the sculptor wanted to tell a continuous story or use many characters

Question 5

Doric frieze -

Answer 5

A continuous strip of stone or marble divided into square spaces called metopes. The Doric frieze was good to use if the sculptor wanted to tell several stories or several scenes from one story.