The Architecture of Greece & Rome: A Sketch of Its Historic Development |
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Acropolis already referred angle arch architect architecture architrave archway Asia Minor Athens atrium Augustus Basilica baths block brick bronze buildings built Caracalla carried carved ceiling cella central centre century B.C. circular colonnaded columns conjectural restoration Corinthian order cornice court decorated diameter Diocletian doorway Doric order enclosure entablature entrance Ephesus Erechtheum erected Etruscan Etruscan temple examples excavated exist facing feature feet high feet long feet wide flanked Folio Forum frieze front gateway Greece Greek temple hall height hemicycle hexastyle inches intercolumniation Ionic capital later marble masonry monuments mouldings Museum Olympia palace Palæstra Parthenon Pausanias pedestals pediment peristyle piers pilasters podium Pompeii portico portion probably pronaos Propylæa remains Roman Rome roof round sculpture shaft side slabs stone storey street stylobate tablinum TEMPLE OF APOLLO Temple of Jupiter Tepidarium terra-cotta theatre Theatre of Marcellus Thermæ tiles tombs Trajan triglyphs upper vault Vitruvius volute walls