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  2. Ancient Greek architecture - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Greek architecture came from the Greeks, or Hellenes, whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and in colonies in Anatolia and Italy for a period from about 900 BC until the 1st century AD, with the earliest remaining architectural works dating from around 600 BC.

  3. List of Ancient Greek temples - Wikipedia

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    The Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens, (174 BC–132 AD), with the Parthenon (447–432 BC) in the background. This list of ancient Greek temples covers temples built by the Hellenic people from the 6th century BC until the 2nd century AD on mainland Greece and in Hellenic towns in the Aegean Islands, Asia Minor, Sicily and Italy ("Magna Graecia"), wherever there were Greek colonies, and the ...

  4. Arch of Galerius and Rotunda - Wikipedia

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    The Rotunda is the oldest of Thessaloniki's churches. Some Greek publications claim it is the oldest Christian church in the world, although there are competitors for that title. It is the most important surviving example of a church from the early Christian period of the Greek-speaking part of the Roman Empire.

  5. Category:Ancient Greek architecture - Wikipedia

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    Greek Revival architecture (8 C, 8 P) Gymnasiums (ancient Greece) (5 P) H. Hellenistic architecture (2 C, 49 P) M. Mycenaean architecture (1 C, 6 P) S.

  6. Ancient Greek art - Wikipedia

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    In the West Greek architecture was also hugely influential, and in both East and West the influence of Greek decoration can be traced to the modern day. Etruscan and Roman art were largely and directly derived from Greek models, [ 144 ] and Greek objects and influence reached into Celtic art north of the Alps, [ 145 ] as well as all around the ...

  7. Doric order - Wikipedia

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    In their original Greek version, Doric columns stood directly on the flat pavement (the stylobate) of a temple without a base. With a height only four to eight times their diameter, the columns were the most squat of all the classical orders; their vertical shafts were fluted with 20 parallel concave grooves, each rising to a sharp edge called an arris.

  8. Corinthian order - Wikipedia

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    The Corinthian order (Greek: Κορινθιακὸς ῥυθμός, Korinthiakós rythmós; Latin: Ordo Corinthius) is the last developed and most ornate of the three principal classical orders of Ancient Greek architecture and Roman architecture. The other two are the Doric order, which was the earliest, followed by the Ionic order. In Ancient ...

  9. Outline of ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    Man and woman wearing the himation Kylix, the most common drinking vessel in ancient Greece The Parthenon, shows the common structural features of Ancient Greek architecture: crepidoma, columns, entablature, and pediment Ancient Greek theatre in Delos Odeon of Herodes Atticus Portrait of Demosthenes, statesman and orator of ancient Athens