temples

• Temple Structure

  • Plinth: raised platform which the temple was built on, containing steps
  • Pronaos / Porch: space before the entrance
  • Naos / Cella: room at the centre of the temple, housed the cult statue
  • Colonnade: walkway around the outside supported by columns
  • Opisthodomos: room at the back often used as a storehouse
• Ionic Style


  Pediment: triangular space at either end of the temple, could have sculpture or be blank
• Doric Style


  Pediment: triangular space at either end of the temple, could have sculpture or be blank
• Ionic Frieze


  Continuous strip of stone / marble that ran around the temple, good to tell a continuous story / use many characters
• Ionic Frieze Example

  • Parthenon
• Doric Frieze


  Continuous strip of stone / marble divided into squares (metopes), good for several stories / several scenes from a story
• Doric Frieze Example

  • Temple of Zeus at Olympia
• what was the colonnade?

  the walkway outside the temple
• when would they use an ionic frieze?

  to tell a continuous story
• when would they use a doric frieze?

  to tell several stories / several scenes from one story