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acroterion
Statue put at the top of a temple
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agora
Roman Forum in Greece, center of meeting, literally means gathering place
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architrave
beam that rested on top of columns, or below an arch
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Artemis
Goddess of the Hunt
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Atreus
Father of Agamemnon, his tomb is the treasury
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caryatid
A statue that serves as a column
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cella
The inner chamber of a temple, statue held here
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corbel
Juts of stone or marble that support weight, part of the structure, often holds a cornice
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cornice
decorative moulding that lines the roof of a building, oftentimes held by corbels
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Croesus
Lydian king, first to start coinage and got killed by Cyrus
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Cyclopean
Building style that seems to be so hard to do that cyclops had to build it
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Dark Ages
Time between fall of Mycenae and the rise of the Polis.
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Deir el-Bahri
Site of tombs and death temples on west bank of nile. Hold Hapshetsut's large palace
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Delphi
Oracle was there, center of the world
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Didyma
Site on Ionian coast, home of temple and oracle of Apollo
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Doric
Shorter, stouter collumns with less decorated capitals
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dromos
entryway to a tomb or temple
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entablature
Basically everything above a column, made up of architrave, frieze, and cornice
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Ephesus
City of Ionian coast, home to temple of Artemis.
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Erechtheum
Temple to Athena on Acropolis, famous for it's caraytid porch
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frieze
Ring of images that go around greek temple and sit on top of architrave usually
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Gigantomachy
Epic battle between Olympians and Giants, oldest group of gods including Gaia and Uranus
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Giza
City of Egypt, pyramids n shit
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hecatompedon
Temple in place of modern Parthenon
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Herodotus
Father of History and wrote the persian wars
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Ionia
Coast of Turkey on the Aegean sea. Home of much of Greek Civilization
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Ionic
Most thin and small columns with loops
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Levant
Old name for Middle East
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Lydia
Kingdom of Anatolia, it's king Croesus built the
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megaron
central room of palace and home of a large hearth
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metope
actual pictures on frieze that sit between those slotted triglypth things
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Miletus
City in Ionia, was once considered the best in Freece
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Mycenae
Site in the peloponese
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Naxos
Island in the cyclades, and one of the most important in greek history
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Near East
Other name for middle east
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Oedipus
got any more of them moms?
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Olympia
old Greek cite in the northern peloponeese. Home of the games
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oracle
talker from the gods
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Orientalizing period
period of greek history where culture became closer to that of the near east, such as the introduction of metalugry
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Parnassus
Home of the muses and the site of the temple of the oracle at delphi
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Parthenon
Thing on the acropolis
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pediment
Triangular structure of templs
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peripteral
Temple with a portico that surounds an inner sanctum
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peristyle
open porch or open columnade in a temple
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Phigaleia
City in Arcadia that has large parts of wall surviving
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pteron
the huge thing the mausoleum of mausolus was one
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Renaissance
Not a real thing
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ridge beam
central beam that held up timber roof of temple
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Siphnos
builder of a treasury that held the offerings to the god Apollo at Delphi
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Smyrna
Large city on the Aegean of Turkey
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triglyph
Three lined things that seperate metope
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Vitruvius
Roman historian who wrote de architectura
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