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A fortified high area or citadel of an ancient Greek city
The Acropolis of Greece |
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| Feature of a Greek house with the purpose of entertaining guests, usually only men were allowed in |
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| A market place or public square in an ancient Greek city usually surrounded by public buildings and porticoes and commonly used as a promenade or meeting place |
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| A walkway between or along sections of seats in a theater auditorium church or other place of assembly |
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| An oval or round building with tiers of seats around a central arena as those used in ancient Rome for gladiatorial contests and spectacles |
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| A semicircular or polygonal projection of a building, usually vaulted and used esp. at the sanctuary or east end of a church |
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| The lower most division of a classical entablature, resting directly on the column capitals and supporting the frieze. |
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| A skylit central court in a building or with a building built around it |
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| Entrance court yard in front of churches |
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| A vault having a semi-circular cross section |
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| A vault having a semi-circular cross section |
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| A large oblong building used as a hall of justice and public meeting place in ancient Rome typically having a high central space lit by a clerestory and covered by timber trusses and a raised dais in a semicircular apse for the tribunal |
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| Bouleuterion/ Council house |
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| Building to accommodate the Boule (the high council of advisory, legislative and administrative) |
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| A room with a large hot bath, heated from below, usually very steamy (Greek) |
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| A north south oriented street in ancient Roman city planning |
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| A sculptured figure of a man used as a column |
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| In ancient Rome, underground cells where wild animals were kept before combat in an arena or amphitheater. |
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| The principal chamber or enclosed part of a classical temple where the cult image was kept |
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| A portion of an interior rising above adjacent rooftops and having windows admitting daylight to the interior |
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| In ancient Roman planning, an east west oriented street |
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| A vaulted structure having a circular plan and usually the form of a portion of sphere so constructed as to exert an equal thrust in all directions |
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| The oldest and simplest of the 5 classical order developed in Greece in the 7th century. Fluted column having no base with a plain cushion shaped capital supporting a square abacus and an entablature consisting of a plain architrave, a frieze of triglyphs and metopes and a cornice |
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| The horizonal section of a classical order that rests on the columns usually composed of a cornice, frieze and architrave |
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| A slight convexity given to a column to correct an optical illusion of concavity if the sides were straight |
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| The rear vestibule of a classical temple |
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| The public square or marketplace of an ancient Roman city, the center of judicial and business affairs and a place of assembly for the people, usually including a basilica and a temple |
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| The horizontal part of a classical entablature between the cornice and the architrave often decorated with sculpture in low relief |
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| A large cool pool to go in after being in a hot Roman bath |
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| A compound vault formed by the perpendicular intersection of the two vaults formed arched diagonal arrises called groins |
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| A grid layout with distinctions between public private and sacred |
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| The ancient Roman system of central heating using the heat from a wood furnace below |
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| A cistern set in the atrium of an ancient Roman house to receive rain water |
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| A large apartment building where the lower and middle class of Romans lived when single family dwellings were luxuries |
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| A classical order that developed in Greek colonies of Asia minor in 6th century BC, spiral volutes of its capital, fluted columns |
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| Any of the panels, either plain or decorated, between triglyphs in the Doric frieze |
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| The portico before the nave of an early Christian or Byzantine church, appropriated to penitents |
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| The principal or central part of a church, extending from the narthex to the choir or chancel and usually flanked by aisles |
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| A circular opening, esp. one at the top of the crown of a dome |
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| The circular space in front of the stage in the ancient Greek theater, reserved for the chorus or the distinguished spectators |
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| The wide low-pitched gable surmounting a colonnade or a major division of a façade |
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| A spherical triangle forming the transition from the circular plan of a dome to the polygonal plan of its supporting structure |
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| A colonnade surrounding a building or a courtyard |
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| An open vestibule before the cella of a classical temple |
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| A structure facing the audience in an ancient Greek theater forming the background before which performances were given |
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| An arch or corbelling built across the upper inside corner of a square tower to support the side of a superimposed octagonal structure. |
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| A course of masonry forming the foundation for a row of columns, esp the outermost colonnade of a classical temple |
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| An ancient Greek portico, usually detached and of considerable length, used as a promenade or meeting place around the public places |
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| Warm Roman bath heated by a hypocaust, example Pompeii |
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| The major transverse part of a cruciform church, crossing the main axis at a right angle between the nave and choir. |
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| A monumental memorial arch erected astride the line of march of a victorious army during its triumphal procession |
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| One of the vertical blocks separating the metopes in a Doric frieze typically having two vertical grooves or glyphs on its face and two chambers or hemiglyphs on the sides |
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| A canvas awning drawn over an ancient Roman amphitheater to protect the audience from rain or sun |
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| A spiral, scroll-like ornament as on the capitals of Ionic orders |
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