Greek Architecture

• Aegean Period

  Greek Architecture
• Religion - Nature worship, religious rites, sacred games, ritual dances, sacrifices. Their gods live in nature, mountains, assumed human form and was not free from human weakness

  Greek Architecture
• Geography and Geology Mainland:

  mountainous hinterlands separated inhabitants into groups, clans, and states Archipelago and islands: sea was the inevitable means of trade and communication

  Greek Architecture
• Climate Between rigorous cold and relaxing heat Clear atmosphere and intense light

  Greek Architecture
• it is a wall that has large stones, no mortar, clay bedding

  Cyclopean wall
• It is a wall that is advanced technique, Hellenic period, no pith or tar

  Polygonal wall
• It is a wall that has no dowels.

  Rectangular Wall
• Cyclopean wall

  
• Single-storeyed house of deep plan, columned entrance porch, anteroom with central doorway, living apartment or megaron proper, central hearth, columns supporting roof , thalamus, or sleeping room behind

  Megaron
• A sacred enclosure, sanctuary, or sacred precinct at an established cult centre, sometimes it incorporates many buildings

  Temenos