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Hellenic Era
500 - 323 BC, "moderation in all things", sophic, "Golden Age of Greece", "Classical Era", "Athenian Miracle"
Acropolis
high city, city on a hill
Pediment
triangle top of building
frieze
stripe right under the pediment
Phidias
man who was commissioned to be the foreman of the Parthenon. Sculpture, not architect
post and lintel
Greek building system/structure. horizontal/vertical system
fluted columns
have ridges that you can see
architrave
stripe under frieze
entablature
pediment, frieze, architrave combined
Temple to Athena Nike
held a Nike w/ clipped wings so she would always be there and they would always be victorious, Ionic order
megaron
rectanglur floor plan
stylobate
stairs all around parthenon, the base
Doric order
most masculine, no base for columns, frieze divided into metope and triglyph
triglyph
the 3 stripe pattern in the frieze
Ionic order
between masculine and feminine, little base for columns, continuous bad of sculpture in frieze
Corinthian order
most feminine, modeled after a plant