Parthenon terminology

Question 1

What is the back porch of a temple called?

Answer 1

Opisthodomos

Question 2

What is the front porch of a temple called ?

Answer 2

Pronaos

Question 3

What are the triangular parts of a temple called?

Answer 3

Pediments

Question 4

What order are the columns?

Answer 4

Doric

Question 5

What style is the Parthenon?

Answer 5

Doric with Ionic features

Question 6

What is the purpose of the Parthenon?

Answer 6

Dual function: House for Athena/trophy for Athens

Question 7

What room did the Athena Parthenos statue reside?

Answer 7

Naos/cella

Question 8

What is the difference in the frieze with ionic and Doric orders?

Answer 8

Ionic - either continuously patterned or continuously blank

Doric - made of metopes and triglyphs

Question 9

What is the top step of a temple called?

Answer 9

Stylobate

Question 10

What is entasis?

Answer 10

Swelling of the doric column base

Question 11

What is the Athena Parthenos statue made out of?

Answer 11

Chryselephantine sculpture

Question 12

Who is the lead sculpture?

Answer 12

Under the supervision of the architect and sculptor Phidias

Question 13

Who were the architects?

Answer 13

Architects: Iktinos, ‎Callicrates

Question 14

What are metopes and triglyphs?

Answer 14

Distinct of Doric order

Triglyphs - pattern depicting old wooden beams

Metopes - sculpture on frieze

Question 15

What is depicted on the Doric frieze?

Answer 15

Battles different in narrative but bounded thematically

Question 16

What is depicted on the Ionic frieze?

Answer 16

The Great Panathenaea - celebration of Athena