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Europ. Arch. Hist. 1. Greek Architecture
Europ. Arch. Hist. 1. Greek Architecture
1. Greek Architecture
The terms marked in capital letters should be learned as architectural vocabulary. The terms can be
assigned to the individual structures of the illustrations using the letters.
The DORIC TEMPLE is determined by the dimensions of the INTERAXIAL of columns. The
axis references are also important. The alignment of the outer surface of the longitudinal
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walls runs through the center of the second and fth front columns. The faces of the ANTAE
are aligned with the axes between the second and third columns of the long side.1
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PERISTASIS CREPIDOMA
PTERON
ANTA
CELLA PRONAOS
OPISTHODOMOS
Fig. 1: Floor Plan of the second temple of Hera, Paestum, Italy. Doric temple. 460-450 BC.
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The IONIC TEMPLE is built on a grid-like oor plan. The front is additionally emphasized by
a deepened PRONAOS.
PERISTASIS CREPIDOMA
PTERON
ANTA
CELLA
PRONAOS
OPISTHODOMOS
peripteral
Fig. 2: Floor Plan of Athena´s Temple, Priene, Turkey. Ionic temple. 2nd. half of the 4th
century BC.
1.2 Floor Plans of special Forms of Greek temples in Asia Minor (Turkey)
In Asia Minor (mainly today's Turkey), some monumental ionic temple forms developed.
With the DIPTERAL-TEMPLE, the arrangement of the columns is doubled. The PSEUDO-
DIPTERAL TEMPLE doubles the width of the PTERON, giving it more visual depth, similar
to the DIPTERAL TEMPLE.2
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Fig. 3: Hera´s temple (Rhoikos-Temple), Samos, Greece. Ionic dipteral temple. 570/60 BC.
Fig. 4: Artemis´ temple, Magnesia, Turkey. Ionic pseudo-dipteral temple. 2. century BC.
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EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY
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EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY
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List of gures:
Fig. 1-2: Schmidt-Colinet/Plattner 2004, 13.
Fig. 3-4: Schmidt-Colinet/Plattner 2004, 15.
Fig. 5-7: Schmidt-Colinet/Plattner 2004, 17.
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