The document defines and provides the names for various architectural structures from ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. It includes structures like temples, theaters, baths, columns, arches, and more. Specific structures mentioned include the Parthenon, Colosseum, Pantheon, and structures like the bouleuterion, palaestra, hippodrome, thermae, and basilica. The document aims to educate the reader on classical architectural terminology.
The document defines and provides the names for various architectural structures from ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. It includes structures like temples, theaters, baths, columns, arches, and more. Specific structures mentioned include the Parthenon, Colosseum, Pantheon, and structures like the bouleuterion, palaestra, hippodrome, thermae, and basilica. The document aims to educate the reader on classical architectural terminology.
The document defines and provides the names for various architectural structures from ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. It includes structures like temples, theaters, baths, columns, arches, and more. Specific structures mentioned include the Parthenon, Colosseum, Pantheon, and structures like the bouleuterion, palaestra, hippodrome, thermae, and basilica. The document aims to educate the reader on classical architectural terminology.
- Atlantes 2. the greek council house which is covered meeting place for the democratically- elected council is calles -Bouleuterion 3. The Estruscans originated in the houses - Domus 4. Similar to the stadium, though longer type of building for house and chariot racing -Hippodrome 5. The character of the roman architecture -ostentation and ornateness 6. The roman palace building began by Augustus and added to by later emperors was the - Palaces of the emperors rome 7. The space between triglyphs with or without sculpture -Metope 8. The greek wrestling school is called - Palaestra 9. In the greek theatre, The scene building which was merely a tent or a booth in which the performance prepare in the parascenia -Skene 10. The plan of the Collosseum, Rome is shaped in the form of -Ellipse 11.The triumphal arch that was built to commemorate the capture of jerusalem was -Arch of titus 12. A quadriga is a - Four-house Chariot 13. A place for all types of physical exercises -Gymnasium 14. The recess or alcave with a raised seat where disputes took place - Exedrae 15. The difference between the Roman and Greek theather is that the romans auditorium encircled ___ of a circle -1/2 16. To celebrate victorious naval campaigns of the generals the usual monument built is the - Rostral Column 17. Roman bridges are called -pons 18. The luxurios country house of the romans which is surrounded by terraces and garden is the - Villa 19. A kindred type to the theater - Odeion 20. The Parthenon is a _ temple - Doric 21. Sunk panels found in the ceiling of greek temples also coffers - Lacunaria 22. Greek temples stood on a foundation of three steps - Crepidoma 23. The origin of the corinthian capital, which is distinguished by its bell shape and the acanthus leaf, is attributed to - Callimachus 24. Marble mosaic pattern used on wall -Opus Sectile 25. The structure used as halls of justice and commercial exchanges bg the romans - Basilica 26. The crowning glory of the roman architecture is the - PANTHEON, ROME. 27. The aegean beehive- shaped type of tomb is called -tholos 28. The dividing wall running down the middle of the arena in a slightly oblique direction in the circus is known as - Spina 29. Roman rectangular temples stood a -Podium 30.A temple arranged with a single line columns surrounding the naos - Peripteral 31. Characteristic of greek surface ornament - ACANTHUS LEAF and SCROLL 32. Most famous of all tombs and one of tne seven wonders of the world erected for king Mausolos -MAUSOLEUM AT HALICARNASSUS 33.The roman subterranean vault is called Coameteria 34.The furnace that provided the warm baths to the thermane -Hypocaust 35. The buttress whic is used for retaining earth - Spur 36. The intercolumniation of a eustyle - 2.25 D 37. The tomb of Asterus, a noted example of the tholos type tomb is also known as - Tomb of agamemnon 38. The widely used order during the greek period - Doric 39. The crepidoma is made up of two parts,namely stylobate and - stereobate 40. The aeves if the greek temple are. protected by a detail which is used to eject rainwater -ANTEFLXAE 41. The architect of trajan's Basilica, rome is -Apollodorus of Damascus 42. The vault which was formed by the intersection of two semi- circular vaults of equal span and used over a square apartment is the - cross vault 43. The favorite of the romans among the five orders is the - Corinthian 44. The building that serves as a senate house for the chief dignitaries of the city and as a palace where distinguished visitors and citizens might be ertertained. - Prytaneion 45. That which corresponds to the greek agora is the roman - Forum 46. Amphitheaters are used in -Gladiatorian contest 47.The town square which was the center of the greeks social and business life - Agora 48. The curved arris formed by the intersection of vaulting surfaces is called - groin 49. The epinaos is also called - posticum 50. The sacred enclosure found in the highest part of the greek city - Peribulos 51. A building in classic archutecture for plants, flowers, and running water , ornamented with statues and forming a cool and agreeable retreat is caled -Nymphaeum 52. Vertical features such as columns were inclined inwards and towards the top to correct the appearance of falling outwards -Entasis 53. The entance passage in the Domus is called -Fauces
54. The hippodrome was the prototype of tbe roman called
- The Circus 55. The dome of a circular building is the -tholos 56. A foot racecourse in the cities, where games were celebrated - Stadium 57. A long combined building, served many purposes, used around public spaces and as a shelter at religious shrines, an ancient covered walkway,in ancient greece, a covered walkway, usually witha row of columns on one side and a wall on the other - Stoa 58. The palatial public bath generally raised on high platform within an enclosing wall - Thermae 59. The palace that forms the greater part of the medieval town of spalato, which has therefore been called a city in a house is the -House of pompeii 60. The wall facing developed by the romans which made of small stones laid in a loose pattern roughly assembling the polygonal work -OPUS INCERTUM