The portico was surrounded by an agora (a square for people's assemblies), the territory of the temple, palaestra, which existed in every Greek city. Everywhere on the slopes of the hills there are stone theaters - the most notable were built in Delphi, Dodona, Oropos, Priene, Pergamum and Syracuse. A universal distribution of the Ionic order became popular in the temple architecture, especially in Asia Minor. The reconstruction of the temple of Artemis in Ephesus continued, a magnificent temple of Apollo was built in Didyma near Miletus, the construction of which lasted almost 200 years. The Temple of Apollo is a gigantic building with two rows of columns on long sides and three on the facade, representing a sample of a classical dipteral. There were some samples of a new style - pseudodipterals, for example, the temple of Artemis in Magnesia.
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Although the Doric order continued to be applied in Hellenistic architecture (but with much simplified proportions), its role was still small. Constructions of Hellenistic time often distinguished the craving for the colossal, a kind of gigantomania. This applies primarily to the monumental altars - the altar of Hieron II in Syracuse and especially to the remarkable monument of the era - the altar of Zeus in Pergamum (II century BC). The altar of Zeus is famous mainly for its grandiose frieze, encircling the base of the building and decorated with a magnificent sculpture. In contrast to the buildings of the classical era, glorifying the policy and its citizens, the monuments of the Hellenistic era glorified the kings and rulers. Specificity of Hellenistic architecture was the emergence of new types of public buildings - libraries and buildings of scientific and practical purposes such as the Pharos Lighthouse in
Although the Doric order continued to be applied in Hellenistic architecture (but with much simplified proportions), its role was still small. Constructions of Hellenistic time often distinguished the craving for the colossal, a kind of gigantomania. This applies primarily to the monumental altars - the altar of Hieron II in Syracuse and especially to the remarkable monument of the era - the altar of Zeus in Pergamum (II century BC). The altar of Zeus is famous mainly for its grandiose frieze, encircling the base of the building and decorated with a magnificent sculpture. In contrast to the buildings of the classical era, glorifying the policy and its citizens, the monuments of the Hellenistic era glorified the kings and rulers. Specificity of Hellenistic architecture was the emergence of new types of public buildings - libraries and buildings of scientific and practical purposes such as the Pharos Lighthouse in