Greek Progect

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By Nathan McCabe

Me


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1. Introduction

2. Doric Style

3. Ionic Style

4. Corinthian Style

5. Examples of Greek

Architecture

6. My Scrapbook

7. Bibliography


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The building styles of the Ancient Greeks still

influence architecture today. The Greeks built lots

of beautiful buildings, but the best ones were the

temples. The ruins are actually still there! In all

the ruins you can see three different building

styles.

Doric Style Ionic Style Corinthian Style


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The earliest building style was called the Doricstyle. It is really plain, but very strong.

A Doric column does not have a base. It stands

on the floor or on a little section of the floor

that is higher than the rest of the floor. It has

fluted sides (that means that it has lines carved

down the side.) The capital (that means the top

bit) looks like a plain saucer, with a big block of

stone on top of it.


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Above the capital there is the architrave. This is a

piece of wall above all the columns. It has

triglyphs and metopes on it. A triglyph is adesign; a kind of pattern (wavy lines or straight

lines.) A metope is a picture or a plain piece of

stone in between the triglyphs.


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The Greeks started using the ionic building stylearound 500 BC. This style is more fancy than the

Doric style. The columns stand on a base, unlike

the Doric columns which stand straight on the

floor. Ionic columns were used by far more than

any other type of column. They had big scrolls at

the top of them and were also fluted, just with

more flutes down them than the Doric columns.


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Instead of having triglyphs and metopes on the

architrave, the Ionic style had a big frieze going

round the sides of the temple. A frieze is a big,continuous picture. The friezes on these temples

normally showed a long line of people, some

having horse races, some sacrificing animals and

some even had beauty contests on them!


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Around 400 BC another building style came into

fashion. It was called the Corinthian style (after

the city of Corinth.) This new style was the

fanciest of all the styles. The columns

had magnificent, huge leaves onthem, called acanthus leaves. These

carvings of leaves are above the

column, but below the architrave.


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The Corinthian style was not actually used SO

much by the Greeks. The Romans used it themost. This style also had a frieze, just like the

Ionic style, except on Corinthian temples the

frieze had more people on it.


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Corinthian columns are by far thefanciest, covered in leaves and ivy;

they have lots of twirls and spikes.

You would find Corinthian

columns at big temples and

acropolises.

Ionic columns are very famous

because of their big scrolls and

twists. These are the most used

columns of the ancient Greeks,

you can find them ANYWHERE!

Doric columns are SO boring, they just have a few

lines going down them and thats about it. If you turn

them over they could be dumbbells from the gym!


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Acropolis means upper city. Many of the cities of ancientGreece were built around an acropolis where theinhabitants could go as a place of refuge when therewas an invasion. It's for this reason that the most sacredbuildings are usually on the acropolis. It's the safest,

most secure place in town.

The Acropolis in Athens is perhaps the most famous. InAthens, as in other Greek city-states, the ancientAthenians built temples and monuments on theAcropolis, dedicated to Athena and other ancient Greekgods. Pericles built the Parthenon. The Parthenon is thebiggest temple on the acropolis.


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Epidaurus is a city state on the coast of Greece. At Epidaurus

there are lots of awesome things to see! There is a huge temple,where Greeks went to worship Dionysus. There is a shrine to

Aphrodite, and also a beautiful statue of Athena.

The temple of Dionysus has some of the most beautiful and

biggest Corinthian columns people have ever found.

The shrine to Aphrodite has carvings on the side, in a crazy

language that no one has ever seen before. The building around it(the temple) has 12-metre columns and stairs leading into the

main room decorated with pictures of Aphrodite looking at three

people killing goats to please her.

The statue of Athena is the 5th biggest statue anyone has found. It

is 78.7 metres tall on its own. It stands on a massive slab of

marble, 4 metres thick!

More inland, there is a very famous ruin of an amphitheatre and

you can still see plays there today. I actually have seen a play

there when I was 2! It was a Greek tragedy, and at the end

everyone was dead.


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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Epidaurushttp://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/menu.htmlhttp://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/acropolis/challenge/cha_s

et.html

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/architecture/

doric.htmhttp://www.woodlands-

junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/greece.html

Daniel McCabes scrap books of our family trip around

Europe in 2002
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