The Ancient Greek and Roman Architecture
Greek orders1.Doric order2.Ionic order3.Corinthian order
Roman orders4.Tuscan order5.Composite order
Construction started in 449 BC, and some scholars believe the building not to have been completed for some three decades, funds and workers having been redirected towards the Parthenon. The western frieze was completed between 445-440 BC, while the eastern frieze, the western pediment and several changes in the building's interior are dated by these scholars to 435-430 BC, largely on stylistic grounds. It was only during the Peace of Nicias (421-415 BC) that the roof was completed and the cult images were installed. The temple was officially inaugurated in 416-415 BC.
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The Erechtheion – 570 BC
The Parthenon – 447 BC - 432 BCA temple on the Athenian
Acropolis, Greece, dedicated to the maiden goddess Athena, whom the people of Athens
considered their patron deity. After the Ottoman conquest, it
was turned into a mosque in the early 1460s. On 26 September 1687, an Ottoman ammunition dump inside the building was
ignited by Venetian bombardment. The resulting
explosion severely damaged the Parthenon and its sculptures.
The Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee, USA is a full scale and polychromed replica of the original Greek Parthenon.
Temple of Aphaea – 500 BC
DelphiApollo's sacred precinct in Delphi was a panhellenic sanctuary, where every four years, starting in 586 BC athletes from all over the Greek world competed in the Pythian Games, one of the four panhellenic (or stephanitic) games, precursors of the Modern Olympics. The victors at Delphi were presented with a laurel crown (stephanos) which was ceremonially cut from a tree by a boy who re-enacted the slaying of the Python.
Temple of Olympian Zeus
Roman orders1.Tuscan order2.Composite order
Triumphal archesArch of Titus – 82 AD
Arch of Constantine – 315 AD
The Alcántara Bridge (also known as Puente Trajan at Alcantara) is a Roman stone arch bridge built over the Tagus River
at Alcantara, Spain between 104 and 106 AD by an order of the Roman Emperor Trajan in 98.
Aqueduct of Segovia
Pont du Gard
Roman theatre at Palmyra
Colosseum – 80 AD
Roman Forum
The Roman Forum is a rectangular forum (plaza) surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the centre of the city of Rome. Citizens of the ancient city referred to this space, originally a marketplace, as the Forum Magnum, or simply the Forum.
The Pantheon – 126 AD
The Pantheon (temple consecratedto all gods) is a building in Rome, Italy, commissioned by Marcus Agrippa during the reign of Augustus as a temple to all the gods of ancient Rome, and rebuilt by the emperor Hadrian about 126 AD.
Trajan's Column (Italian: Colonna
Traiana) is a Roman triumphal column in
Rome, Italy, that commemorates Roman
emperor Trajan's victory in the Dacian Wars. It
was probably constructed under the
supervision of the architect Apollodorus of Damascus at the order of the Roman Senate. It is
located in Trajan's Forum, built near the
Quirinal Hill, north of the Roman Forum.
Completed in AD 113, the freestanding column
is most famous for its spiral bas relief, which
artistically describes the epic wars between the Romans and Dacians
(101–102 and 105–106). Its design has inspired
numerous victory columns, both ancient
and modern.