Architectural Styles
Ancient Greek
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
800-31 BCE
- Urban design
- 3 classical orders (Doric, Ionic & Corinthian)
- elegant proportions
- symmetry
- post-and-lintel construction
- limestone & marble
- triangular pediments
- entablature above columns comprising architrave (beam), frieze (decorated band) & cornice (projecting ledge)
- acoustics and design
- integration with landscape
- detailed reliefs
- naturalistic sculpture
- climatic adaptations
- Greece
- Mediterranean
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Historic Accommodation Types
Custom Accommodation Examples
- Acropolis
- temples
- open-air theatres
- processional gateway (propylon)
- public squares (agora
- surrounded by storied colonnades (stoa),
- town council buildings (bouleuterion)
- public monuments
- monumental tombs (mausoleum)
- stadium,
- Acropolis of Athens
- Parthenon
- Temple of Hephaestus
- ‘Theatre of Dionysus
- Erechtheion
- Temple of Apollo at Delphi
- Theater of Epidaurus
- Stoa of Attalos
- Temple of Olympian Zeus
- Artemis Temple of Corfu
- Column of Trajan
- Hephaisteion
- The Stadium at Epidauros
- Xenon (Basic inns/hostels) for locals & foreigners
- Xenodocheion (institutional lodging)
- Katagogion (festival hostel)
- Prytaneion (guest house)
- Asklepieia (Healing sanctuaries with hostels)
- Xenia (hospitality customs)
- guest rooms in homes as moral/social obligation
- religious sanctuaries (Apollo at Delphi)
- excavated remains in Athens, Corinth, and Delphi
- travelers texts & travel guides (Herodotus, Pausanias, Xenophon) noted types, locations & services
- Major religious/sport festivals (eg Olympic Games) attracted many visitors
- merchant trade routes between city-states
- Xenodocheion at Epidaurus (pilgrims)
- Xenodocheion at Olympia (athletes & officials);
- Katagogion at Delphi
- Prytaneion at Olympia.
- Asklepieia at Kos and Epidaurus
Landmarks
Original Accommodation
