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Édifice qui, dans l'Antiquité, était dédié à une divinité et renfermait une statue la Treillis clôturant le pronaos ou l'opisthodome. 1967 p.129 Walter Voigtländer in: Adolf Hoffmann; Ernst-Ludwig Schwandner; The Greek temples were often enhanced with figural decorations. They are normally made of several separately cut column drums. Le temple grec est un type d'édifice religieux développé en Grèce antique dans le cadre de la religion grecque.

There are many where the platforms are reasonably complete, and some round drum elements of the columns, which were harder for later builders to re-use. Garlic-eaters were forbidden in one temple, in another women unless they were virgins; restrictions typically arose from local ideas of ritual purity or a perceived whim of the deity. the As far as topographically possible, the temples were freestanding and designed to be viewed from all sides. The most renowned of Greek temples and one of the most influential buildings in the world of architecture.
the size of an average Another determining design feature was the relationship linking The basic proportions of the building were determined by the numeric relationship of columns on the front and back to those on the sides.

The simplest example of a Greek temple is the Circular temples form a special type. The Greeks used a limited number of spatial components, influencing the These components allowed the realisation of a variety of different plan types in Greek temple architecture. especially the Battle scenes of all kinds were also a common theme of Ionic friezes, e.g. The temple in the The columns stood on ephesian bases, 36 of them were decorated with life-sized friezes of human figures at the bottom of the shaft, the so-called One of the projects led by Hermogenes was the Artemision of Although Athens and Attica were also ethnically Ionian, the Ionic order was of minor importance in this area. The original advert contained all the information necessary to enable a contractor to make a realistic offer for completing the task. through the addition of ramps or stairs with up to eight steps (at For the early period, before the 6th century BCE, the term Ionic temple can, at best, designate a temple in the As soon as the Ionic order becomes recognisable in temple architecture, it is increased to monumental sizes. The Temple of Concordia, built in the 5th century BC, is the best preserved in the Valley and is one of the largest and best preserved Doric style temples still standing. Athens has the Parthenon and the even better preserved Doric Buildings housing cult statues in Greek sanctuariesIntroduction of stone architecture: Archaic and ClassicalDecline of Greek temple building: Hellenistic periodAbandonment and conversion of temples: Late AntiquityLate Classical and Hellenistic: changing proportionsIntroduction of stone architecture: Archaic and ClassicalDecline of Greek temple building: Hellenistic periodAbandonment and conversion of temples: Late AntiquityLate Classical and Hellenistic: changing proportionsRegarding Roman period and financing, using the province of Asia as an example, see The same basic proportion occurs, less purely, in the Retallack, G.J., 2008, "Rocks, views, soils and plants at the temples of ancient Greece".

'dwelling', semantically distinct from Latin templum, "temple") were structures built to house deity statues within Greek sanctuaries in ancient Greek … Its responsibilities included the advertising and awarding of individual contracts, the practical supervision of the construction, the inspection and acceptance of completed parts, and the paying of wages. The An Ionic temple with a design very similar with that of a Greek Temple is known from The youngest of the three Classical Greek orders, the The first dateable and well-preserved presence of the Corinthian temple is the Hellenistic rebuilding of the Around the middle of the 2nd century BCE, a 6 × 12 columns Corinthian peripteros was built in The few Greek temples in the Corinthian order are almost always exceptional in form or ground plan and are initially usually an expression of royal patronage. Contracts were normally awarded to the competitor offering the most complete service for the cheapest price. Apart from early forms, occasionally still with apsidal backs and hipped roofs, the first 100-foot (30 m) peripteral temples occur quite soon, before 600 BCE.

Examples are Temple of The elevation of Greek temples is always subdivided in three zones: the Placed on the stylobate are the vertical column shafts, tapering towards the top. lo (c. 450 aC), i el segon temple d'Hera (460-440 aC); El temple E a Selinunte (465-450 aC), dedicat a Hera; El temple de Zeus a Olímpia (c. 470-456 aC), actualment en ruïnes; They were not normally designed with consideration for their surroundings, but formed autonomous structures. Longtemps après la fin du polythéisme grec, l'architecture des temples grecs antiques a été l'une des sources d'inspiration de … A temple of the Doric Order commanding the Acropolis of Athens.


Depending on the architectural order, a different number of Above the frieze, or an intermediate member, e.g.

Contractors were usually only responsible for specific parts of the overall construction, as most businesses were small.