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Floor plan of the Parthenon. The Parthenon is a peripteral octastyle Doric temple with Ionic architectural features. It stands on a platform or stylobate of three steps. In common with other Greek temples, it is of post and lintel construction and is surrounded by columns ('peripteral') carrying an entablature. There are eight columns at either ...
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Computer-generated reconstruction of the Chalkotheke (blank structure in background). The structure visible on the left is the Parthenon. The Chalkotheke (Greek for "bronze store") was a structure on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece. Its name and function are only known from 4th century BC inscriptions. [1]
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on ast.wikipedia.org Arte griegu; Partenón; Usage on be-tarask.wikipedia.org Партэнон; Usage on bo.wikipedia.org
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Plan of the Parthenon: 1) Pronaos (east side) 2) Naos hecatompedos neos (east side) 3) Chryselephantine statue of Athena Parthenos 4) Parthenon (virgin room, treasure) (west side) 5) Opisthodomos (west side) In 480 BCE, the Persians ransacked the Acropolis of Athens, including the pre-Parthenon, which was under construction at the time. [1]
A ceasefire between Turkey and the U.S.-backed Kurdish Syrian forces (SDF) around the northern Syrian city of Manbij has been extended until the end of this week, State Department spokesperson ...
The Parthenon has the Doric design columns. It was most popular in the Archaic Period (750–480 BC) in mainland Greece, and also found in Magna Graecia (southern Italy), as in the three temples at Paestum. These are in the Archaic Doric, where the capitals spread wide from the column compared to later Classical forms, as exemplified in the ...