2.   Early temples were built with mud brick, timber frame and supports, rubble, thatch roofs.  The concept of a temple was a house for a god’s image, meaning the statue was at the back of the hall. Early Temples – Dark Ages statue

3.   After 700 BC the Greeks began building temples of stone.  Doric temples prospered throughout Western Greece, Sicily and Southern Italy.  Better roofs were created due to the use of baked clay tiles. Early Temples - Archaic Age

4.   During the mid 7 th century BC, travellers introduced stone columns to Greek temples.  Stone columns in the Doric style imitated previous wooden columns.  Later on they would develop into Ionic and Corinthian styles. Temple development

7.   The Temple of Artemis is an ancient temple built in the archaic style around 580 BC in the city of Corcyra.  It is known as the first Doric temple exclusively built with stone.  Considered the first building to have incorporated all of the elements of the Doric architectural style. Corcyra: Temple of Artemis

9.   Temple of Hera was built between 490 and 470 BC  The Temple of Hera is constructed in the classic Greek, Doric architectural style.  It consists of colonnades of Doric columns on a rectangular foundation Sicily: Temple of Hera

11.   The Temple of Zeus at Olympia built in 472 was the model of the fully developed classical Greek temple in the Doric style.  Home to the statue of Zeus, one of the seven ancient wonders of the world  The main structure of the building was limestone coated with a thin layer of stucco (a mixture which when hardens gives the appearance of marble) Olympia: Temple of Zeus