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    The document discusses the orders of architecture in ancient Greece and Rome. It describes the five orders - Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, and Composite. Each order has distinguishing features in the column, entablature, and decorative elements. The passage also examines architectural remains from the pre-Mycenaean and Mycenaean periods in Greece. Different styles of masonry construction are defined, including cyclopean, rectangular, and polygonal styles. Examples of each type are given from archaeological sites in Greece and Crete.

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    The document discusses the orders of architecture in ancient Greece and Rome. It describes the five orders - Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, and Composite. Each order has distinguishing features in the column, entablature, and decorative elements. The passage also examines architectural remains from the pre-Mycenaean and Mycenaean periods in Greece. Different styles of masonry construction are defined, including cyclopean, rectangular, and polygonal styles. Examples of each type are given from archaeological sites in Greece and Crete.

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    The document discusses the orders of architecture in ancient Greece and Rome. It describes the five orders - Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, and Composite. Each order has distinguishing features in the column, entablature, and decorative elements. The passage also examines architectural remains from the pre-Mycenaean and Mycenaean periods in Greece. Different styles of masonry construction are defined, including cyclopean, rectangular, and polygonal styles. Examples of each type are given from archaeological sites in Greece and Crete.

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    The document discusses the orders of architecture in ancient Greece and Rome. It describes the five orders - Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, and Composite. Each order has distinguishing features in the column, entablature, and decorative elements. The passage also examines architectural remains from the pre-Mycenaean and Mycenaean periods in Greece. Different styles of masonry construction are defined, including cyclopean, rectangular, and polygonal styles. Examples of each type are given from archaeological sites in Greece and Crete.

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    GREEK EXAMPLE I.

    GREEK
    CONSTRUCTION
    Orders of Architecture
    5 Orders of Architecture

    Greek Romans
    • Doric • Tuscan
    • Ionic • Composite
    • Corinthian
    An " order " in Greek and Roman architecture
    consists of the column or support, including base
    and capital, and the entablature, or part
    supported. The latter is divided into the
    architrave or lowest portion ; the frieze, or middle
    member, and the cornice or uppermost part. The
    proportions of these parts vary in the different
    orders, as do the mouldings and decorations
    applied.
    The Ionic order is one of the three orders of
    classical architecture, alongside the Doric and
    Corinthian orders. Classical architecture refers to
    the architecture styles of ancient Greece and
    Rome, which set the standards for architecture in
    the Western world.
    The Mycenaean
    Period
    The Mycenaean Period has already been
    defined as extending to shortly after the war
    with Troy, though in the Islands (e.g., Cyprus,
    Crete, and Delos), it lasted on till the eighth
    century B.C. ;but remains of a pre-Mycenaean
    period called Minoan, dating back to about
    B.C. 3000, have been discovered by- Dr.
    Arthur Evans, of which the Minoan Palace at
    Knossos in Crete is an example. The
    architectural remains of these periods include
    town-walls, palaces, and tombs. The walls are
    of three kinds of masonry
    1. Cyclopean - masses of rock roughly
    quarried and piled on each other, without
    cramp-irons, but with clay mortar, the
    interstices between the larger being filled with
    smaller blocks.
    Examples at
    • Argos
    • Tiryns
    • Mycenae
    • Knossos in Crete
    • Athens
    2. Rectangular - carefully hewn rectangular
    blocks arranged in regular courses, but the joints
    between stones in the same course are not
    always vertical. Examples at Mycenae in the
    entrances and towers, and the entrance passage
    in "tholos" or beehive-tombs.
    3. Polygonal - many sided blocks accurately
    worked so as to fit together. Examples at
    Mycenae, wall of Acropolis at Athens, and
    Cnidus. Thus all three styles occur in structures
    of "Mycenaean" age, although in out-of-the way
    places, as in Caria, they survived for centuries
    Corbels-
    Sometimes horizontal
    courses were
    employed projecting
    one beyond the other
    till the apex was
    reached, producing
    either a triangular
    opening as is found
    above the doorways
    of the tholos-tombs
    Inclined Blocks - Sometimes inclined blocks
    forming triangular headed openings were
    employed as in the early, perhaps prehistoric,
    sanctuary on Mount Ocha in Eubcea, and the
    ancient shrine of Apollo on Mount Cynthus
    (Delos).
    Arches - A few examples of Greek arcuated
    work are extant,
    viz., a Cyclopean arch at Cnidus, an arch with a
    key-stone
    (partially dropped) in Acarnania, and an arched
    gateway at
    Ceniades
    The " tholos“ or beehive-tombs at
    Mycenae, Orchomenos, and
    Amyclae were originally modelled on
    underground huts for the living (Vitruv. ii.,
    i), the precise shape being found by Prof.
    Adler
    in Phrygia. At Mycenae the tholoi are
    confined to the lower city
    as opposed to the shaft-graves of the
    upper city. The largest and
    best preserved is the so-called
    "Treasury of Atreus "
    DISTYLE IN ANTIS
    DISTYLE IN ANTIS
    CIRCULAR PERIPTERSAL
    PROSTYLE (DORIC)
    TEMPLE OF ILISSUS (IONIC)

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