The Architecture of Ancient Greece: An Account of Its Historic Development"This 1950 work is a major revision of a 1902 volume by William James Anderson and Richard Phene Spiers, which may account for its formalistic feel. Dinsmoor offers a chronological description of key temples and other buildings, interspersing big-picture analysis among highly detailed specifics."--Goodreads.com |
Contents
THE AEGEAN AGE page | 1 |
Island houses 4 Mainland houses 5 Island palaces 8 Mainland palaces 16 | 16 |
Fortifications 22 Temples 24 Tombs 25 | 25 |
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Acropolis angle antae anthemion Apollo appear archaic architecture architrave Asia assumed Athenian Athens bases blocks building built capitals carried carved cella central centre century colonnade columns construction Corinthian corners cornice course court decorated Delphi diameter doorway Doric earlier early east employed entablature entire entrance Ephesus erected examples façade face feet flanks flutes foundations four frieze front giving Greek height Hellenistic houses important inches inner Ionic Italy known later leaves lower marble metopes Minor monuments moulding noted Olympia orchestra original Parthenon pediment period peristyle Persian Plate portico portion probably projecting proscenium relief remains restoration Roman roof scene sculptured seems shaft side sima sometimes spacing square stage steps stoa stone structure style stylobate suggested supporting temple theatre tomb upper usually volutes wall wide wooden