1. Ancient Greece: Architecture and Sculpture
The Greeks considered their temples dwelling places for the gods. The highest goal for the Greeks was appeasing the gods in hopes that the gods would bestow rewards on them. Oracles and omens were an important part of their religious practices. The marble temples were painted brightly in rich colors, but time has worn off the original colors.

2. Greek buildings utilized the Post-and-Lintel system.

3. Parts of a Greek Temple
Pediment
Lintel
Platform

4. Doric Order The earliest and most basic style
Iktinos, Kallikrates, and Karpion. The Parthenon (view from the west), Akropolis, Athens BCE.
The earliest and most basic style
Banned Frieze (ABA pattern)
Emphasis on stability and grace
Massive and weighty
Heavy use of entasis-where the column appears thicker at the base. Etymology: ‘to strain’

5. Ionic Order Fairly fluid style, more decorative
Capital carved into double scrolls like ram horns
Suited only for small temples initially
Light and graceful
Continuous friezes
Thinner column shafts
Kallikrates, Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis, Athens, c BCE.

6. Corinthian Order Capitals elongated
Temple of Olympian Zeus
Athens, Greece
c. 500 BCE
Capitals elongated
With curly shoots and leaves (Complex & organic)
Invented in the late 5th century by a metalworker named Kallimachos
Became the standard capital for Roman architects

7. Porch of the Maidens, the Erechtheum, Akropolis, Athens. 421 - 405 BC.
Caryatid = a sculptured female figure used as an architectural support

8. Find a piece of architecture located somewhere in
North Carolina that uses the Greek Post-and-Lintel Temple Structure.
You must find:
A picture of the building
Name of building
Date built
Location
*Identify which order/or combination of orders have been used and explain which characteristics cause you to think so.

9. The Wilkes Heritage Museum
The original courthouse was built in 1902
Wilkesboro, NC
Ionic Order- Columns have a base, scrolled capital, and continuous frieze