Greek Architecture

Marshall Cavendish Digital
Exploring Ancient Civilizations - online encyclopedia about ancient cultures from around the world including Greek and Roman
See Ms. Averill for the user name for McGee and the password for MCDigital resources.
Search under Greek temple or under frieze.
http://www.marshallcavendishdigital.com/

Classical Orders
Charlotte-Meckenlenburg Historic Landmark Commission Kids Dictionary
http://www.cmhpf.org/kids/dictionary/ClassicalOrders.html

Greek Picture Gallery
http://historylink101.net/greece1/pic-main.htm

Greek Architecture: Looking Forward, Looking Back
[Good descriptions of Greek architectural orders]
Odyssey Online
http://www.carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/Teachers/ll/Greek_Lesson_Plan/Athenian_Treasury.pdf

Ancient Greek Architecture
Kidipede
[Click on the links to Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian]
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/architecture/greekarch.htm

Architecture in Ancient Greece
[Good descriptions of Greek architectural orders]
http://www.ancientgreece.com/s/Art/

How the Acropolis Was Built
The Acropolis Experience
The Greeks
Empires
PBS
[Virtual tour of the Parthenon as it was built 2000 years ago in ancient Athens]
http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/acropolis/built.html

Ancient Greek Temple by Michael Lahanas
[Scroll down to find the English language section.]
http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Arts/GreekTemple.htm

Greek Architecture
http://www.crystalinks.com/greekarchitecture.html

Greek Architecture
Architecture Through the Ages
Think Quest
http://library.thinkquest.org/10098/greek.htm?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0314

The Greek Temple by William Rowbothan
[Includes information about the role of the Greek temple]
http://www.odysseyadventures.ca/articles/greektemple/greek_temple.htm

History of Greek Architecture
History of Western Architecture
The Leo Masuda Architectonic Research Office
http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp./org/orion/eng/hst/greek.html

Ancient Greek Architecture
Great Buildings
http://www.greatbuildings.com/types/styles/greek.html

Greek Architecture
Digital Archive of Architecture
Prof. Jerry Howe, Boston College
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/greek_arch.html

Temples
Perseus Project
Tufts University
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/browser?object=Building&field=Type&value=Temple

Frieze Patterns
http://plato.acadiau.ca/courses/educ/reid/Geometry/Symmetry/frieze.html

Parthenon Frieze
Columbia University
http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/parthenon/flash/main.htm

The Parthenon Frieze
http://www.ekt.gr/parthenonfrieze/introduction/temple.jsp?lang=en

Bauplastik, Friese
Die Photographen
Institut fuer Klassischen Archaeologie und Antikensammlung
http://www.phil.uni-erlangen.de/~p1altar/photo_html/bauplastik/fries/ebene3.html

Metis
Interactive Quicktime clips show how important ancient sites look now.
http://www.stoa.org/metis/cgi-bin/cat

 

Updated 10 April 2008 L. Averill