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Century Bc American School
1,399 wordsThe Stoa of Attalos is a very interesting building. The location is in Athens Greece, more specifically in the ancient Athenian Agora, or market place. Unlike many ancient Greek or Roman Buildings, the Stoa of Attalos is fully reconstructed identically to its original form. The present day building is referred to as the American school in Athens. I am going to tell you about the history of the building, for instance when it was built and re-built. You will also read about man who originally fina...
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5 Th Century North And South
1,653 words... regions of this early temple are significant. With 6 columns across the front and back and 16 on each side (counting the corner columns twice), the temple has a ratio of length to width of nearly three to one. As time passed, Greek architects felt these proportions were too elongated. They progressively reduced the temples length relative to its width, until by the mid- 5 th century the ratio was slightly more than two to one. The Parthenon in Athens (447 - 432 BC), for example, has 17 colum...
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Greek Architecture B C
651 wordsGreek Greek Architecture Greek Architecture Greek influence is visible in everything that we have today. Our laws, cities and even our system of goverment all come from aspects of greek civilization, but maybe what we have been influenced the most gy the greeks is in architecture. Maybe the reason this is, is that it was a new form of architecture that had little to do with function and everything to do with looks. Ago example is the Greek temple. They were built in honor of the gods, but the ar...
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