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A stoa (/ ˈ s t oʊ ə /; plural, stoas, [1] stoai, [1] or stoae / ˈ s t oʊ. iː / [2]), in ancient Greek architecture, is a covered walkway or portico, commonly for public use. [3] Early stoas were open at the entrance with columns, usually of the Doric order, lining the side of the building; they created a safe, enveloping, protective ...
The western side of the octastyle Parthenon in Athens Octastyle buildings had eight columns; they were considerably rarer than the hexastyle ones in the classical Greek architectural canon . The best-known octastyle buildings surviving from antiquity are the Parthenon in Athens , built during the Age of Pericles (450–430 BCE), and the ...
The stoa was located at the northwest corner of the Agora, on the left (north) side of the Panathenaic Way as one entered the Agora. To the west was a narrow north–south street. [20] On the other side of that street was an altar and (in the Roman period) a temple, probably dedicated to Aphrodite Urania.
A symmetrical two-sided roof with two slopes on each side. Gargoyle A carved stone grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof. Garret A habitable attic at the top of a larger building, generally with sloping walls, and with skylights or dormer windows. Gauged brickwork (also rubbed brickwork)
The meander is a fundamental design motif in regions far from a Hellenic orbit: labyrinthine meanders ("thunder" pattern [3]) appear in bands and as infill on Shang bronzes (c. 1600 BC – c. 1045 BC), and many traditional buildings in and around China still bear geometric designs almost identical to meanders.
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 ...
The Athenian Treasury in Delphi with two antae framing a set of two columns. An anta (pl. antæ, antae, or antas; Latin, possibly from ante, "before" or "in front of"), or sometimes parastas (pl. parastades), is a term in classical architecture describing the posts or pillars on either side of a doorway or entrance of a Greek temple – the slightly projecting piers which terminate the side ...
Attic. In classical architecture, the term attic refers to a storey (or low wall) above the cornice of a classical façade.The decoration of the topmost part of a building was particularly important in ancient Greek architecture and this came to be seen as typifying the Attica style, [citation needed] the earliest example known being that of the monument of Thrasyllus in Athens.