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Aegean Cultures
Ashlar Masonry
Bronze Age
Citadel
Cyclopean masonry
Several related mural painting types, done on plaster on walls or ceilings (Jumping Bulls)
Frescoes
Labyrinth
Lustral-Basin
Megaron
Rectangular room having a central hearth and four columns supporting a roof ith an atrium opening
Acaanthus leaf
Acropolis
"High city" In greek states the acropolis as the location of the most important temples and religious shrines
Agora
In greek cities the term applied to the area of markets and city government
Archaic
Caryatid
A pier carved in the form of a standing woman and used in place of a column
Entasis
The slight outward curve of a column, which then tapers toward the top of the shaft
Golden section
Hellenes
Hellenistic
Period of Greek history between death of Alexander the Great and the annexation of the romans
Orders of Architecture
The trabeated systems of architecture develped by the Greeks and extended by the Romans. The Greek orders, Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian - Differ slightly from the Roman orders. The Romans develped the Tuscan and Composite order
Polis
Polychromy
architecture
Temenos
A piece of land cut off and assigned as an official domain, especially to kings and chiefs, or a piece of land marked off from common uses and dedicated to a god, a sanctuary or holy grave
Temple
Tholos
A dome over a circular plan building or more generally the building itself
Stoa
In greek architecture a linear building with one or more rows of columns, stoas could be used for shops, meetings, exhibitions
Cella or Noas
Base
The lowest part of a column or pier often broader than the sections avobe to spread the load to the foundation
Shaft
The vertical element above the base and below the capital in an architectural order
Capital
Architrave
Frieze
The horizontal element above the architrave and belo the cornice in an entablature
Flutes or Fluting
Metope
An element of the doric frieze set alternately with triglyphs. Panels contain low relief carvings
Pediment
Peristyle
Stylobate
Triglyph
Volute
Cornice
The uppermost element of an entablature, which projects beyond the plane of the exterior wall: more generally , the overhanging molding atop any building
Amphitheater
Apse