Greek Architecture

Question 1

Acropolis

Answer 1

High point of the city. Used for defensive or religious purposes.

Question 2

Agora

Answer 2

Marketplace where the business of the city occurred. Government buildings.

Question 3

Stoa

Answer 3

Marketplace building. Located in agora.

Question 4

Portico

Answer 4

Colonnaded porch or walkway.

Question 5

Temples

Answer 5

Buildings for worship. Usually rectangular in shape. Colonnades addes for support. Had a stoa, pronaos, and adytum. Crepidoma steps

Question 6

Thatched

Answer 6

Covered with a layer of straw.

Question 7

Wattle and daub

Answer 7

Thin wood strips plastered with clay or mud

Question 8

Colonnades

Answer 8

Rows of supporting columns

Question 9

Cella

Answer 9

Sanctuary

Question 10

Pronaos

Answer 10

Porch

Question 11

Adytum

Answer 11

Second more sacred inner room in a temple

Question 12

Pediments

Answer 12

Triangular portion of wall carrying roof

Question 13

Parthenon

Answer 13

Famous Greek temple.

Question 14

Peripteral

Answer 14

Surrounded by columns

Question 15

Crepidoma

Answer 15

Stepped platform

Question 16

Ambulatort

Answer 16

Covered walkway.

Question 17

Order

Answer 17

Building style. denotes the style of the capital.

Question 18

Doric order

Answer 18

Simplest of Greek column style. Had *flutings.

Concave grooves

Question 19

Ionic order

Answer 19

Originated in eastern Greece. Spiral scroll on top of column.

Question 20

Corinthian order

Answer 20

Capital has many mini volutes and acanthus leaves.

Question 21

Capital

Answer 21

Crowning motif of columns

Question 22

Cornice

Answer 22

Projecting part of entablature

Question 23

Frieze

Answer 23

Center of entablature; horizontal of sculptured panel

Question 24

Architrave

Answer 24

Horizontal span, directly above column

Question 25

Entablature

Answer 25

Upper portion of order: architrave, frieze, and cornice

Question 26

Triglyphs

Answer 26

Blocks of vertical channels spaced between metopes in frieze.

Question 27

Metope

Answer 27

Space between triglyph on frieze

Question 28

Caryatid

Answer 28

Female statue as columns

Question 29

Masoleum

Answer 29

Buildings to house dead