temples

• Parthenon - dedicated to athena
• Parthenon - located on the acropolis
• parthenon - made out of imported marble
• parthenon - 13 feet chryselephantine statue of athena
• had an additional row of columns - parthenon
• temples

  centerpiece of a sanctuary

  home for the god

  place to worship the gods
• layout of greek temple

  • pronaos - porch
  • naos - main room
  • opisthodomos - behind room
  • steps all the way round
  • colonade
• temple of zeus at olympia - located at the sanctuary at olympus
• temple of zeus at olympia - has an alter said to be made by heracles, used for hecatomb sacrifices
• eastern pediment - tozao

  oinamous and pelops

  shows zues's role in xenia and shows people what will happen if they perform acts of bad xenia such as king oinamaos
• western pediment - tozao

  centauromachy

  presents barbarianism and how the greeks are far better and more civalised
• the metopes - tozao

  12 labours of heracles

  links with zeus's son

  presents greeks with an ideal role model
• tozao - internal colinade
• tozao - pool of olive oil
• tozao - huge cult statue, once laughed at caligula it was so impressive
• temple of portunas - located in the forum boarium
• temple of portunas - small temple
• temple of portunus - semi engaged column, more practical and cheaper
• temple of portunus - no opisthodomus and stairs to enter only
• pantheon - located at the campus martius
• pantheon - domed roof represented the heavens
• pantheon - dedicated to all the gods
• pantheon - rotund cella, atypical
• pantheon - commisioned by marcus agrippa, sign shows current designers link to the glory of rome
• pantheon had multiple cult statues of various gods
• a sanctuary was an area of land that was sacred to a deity or deities
• a sanctuary consists of

  a temple

  an alter

  space for worship
• trigliph - seperated the metopes
• pediment

  entablature

  capital

  column
• roman temple

  cella - main room

  stairs - for entering only

  colonade - semi engaged sometimes
• entasis - column bulging in the middle to make it look bigger
• doric order column

  simple

  powerful

  no base

  plain capital
• ionic column

  taller than doric

  flutes

  entasis

  capital scrolls
• corinthian column

  not much used by greeks

  most decorative

  entasis

  fluting

  capital has acanthus flowers
• caryatids - female figures acting as columns - maidens of karya, wear baskets of reeds on their heads
• perirrhanterion - ritual basin
• pantheon temple columns made out of egyptian granite
• temple of portunus missing opisthodomus
• the agrippan pantheon possibly built without its rotund cella
• pantheon seeks to higlight the divine nature of the emperor during his lifetime in a grandiose setting