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25 Questions

1. Ionic frieze

2. Mnesikles
ARCHITECT

3. How (and why) does the plan of a city like Athens differ from that of a city like Paestum or Miletus?

4. Temple of Apollo Epikourios (Epicurius), Bassai (Bassae), Greece, c. 430 BCE
(Classical Period)

5. Metope

6. Grid plan

7. What are some of the topographic and religious considerations that influenced the architectural design of
the Propylaia and the 'Erechtheion' on the Acropolis of Athens? (Think of why these buildings are not
perfectly symmetrical and why they have different levels).

8. Parthenon Interior and Exterior

9. Caryatid

10. Epistyle (or architrave)

11. Stylobate

12. Choragic monument

13. Architrave (or epistyle)

14. Paestum City Planning

15. Orchestra

16. Corinthian

17. Temple of Apollo Epikourios Plan

18. Lionhead waterspout

19. Architectural Elements of Ionic Order

20. How does the Corinthian order relate to the Ionic order? What natural element is the basis for the design
of the Corinthian capital?

21. Temple of Hera
Paestum, Italy
ca. 550 BCE
(Archaic Period)

22. Entasis

23. Echinus

24. Entablature

25. What are some of the buildings found in a Greek civic center and what are their functions?