Polis

The ancient Greek city-state

  Labyrinth

A building with, or arrangement of, winding or confusing pathways

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Fresco

A  painting executed on wall surfaces by working pigments into wet plaster

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Ashlar

Base

The lowest part of a column or pier, often broader than the sections above to spread the load to the foundation

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Minoan column

Torus

Abacus

Minoan Column: A downward tapering shaft with a bulbous torus ring and abacus black capital

Torus: convex, roughly semicircular molding often seen at the base of a classical column 

Abacus: on a classical column, the stone set directly over the capital

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 Lustral-basin

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Megaron

Simple rectangular space having solid long walls without openings and an entrance in the center of one short side, generally with an attached anteroom preceded by a court

 Three room megaron sequence of porch, vestibule, and domos at major spaces of house

 see pg 43 for plans

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Domos

The principal space in a megaron

Prodomos

The same as a pronaos, an antechamber to a shrine room of a Greek temple

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a dome over a circular plan building, or more generally the building itself

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Cyclopean

walls/structures made with very large stones, only minimally shaped

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opisthodomos

The enclosed room at the back of a Greek temple, often used as a treasury

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the shrine room in the center of a temple, the sanctuary of a Greek temple

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Pronaos

The vestibule or antechamber to the shrine room (naos) of a Greek temple

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Shaft

The vertical element above the base and below the capital in an architectural order

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In antis columns

columns in the plane of a wall and often between antae

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Anta

A pilaster-like thickening of the wall edge or jamb of a wall opening that responds to an adjacent column

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Entablature

architrave

frieze

cornice

In classical architecture, the horizontal elements supported by columns, consisting (in ascending sequence) of the architrave, frieze, and cornice

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Order

The trabeated systems of architecture developed by the Greeks and extended by the Romans. The Greek orders- Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian- differ slightly from the Roman orders. The Romans developed the Tuscan and Composite orders.

Drum

The cylindrical volume supporting a dome

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Gable

the pedimented end of a classical temple, more generally the triangular space at the end of a double pitched roof

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Prostyle

A portico of columns on the front of a building

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Stylobate

The base, usually having steps, on which a colonnaded temple sits

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Pediment

The gable end of a temple, framed by cornices

Pediments depict birth of Athena and battle between Athena and Poseidon for control of Athens

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Mosque

An Islamic house of prayer

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Agora

 in Greek cities, the term applied to the area of markets and city government

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Caryatid

 A pier carved in the form of a standing woman and used in place of a column

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Fillet

 flat vertical space between flutings of a column shaft

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Acanthus

 A plant used as a model for decoration on Corinthian and Composite capitals

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Baldachin

elaborate canopy erected over an altar

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Cupola

 a dome. The term is also applied to the lantern on any roof structure (generally used to describe the structure over the oculus of a dome)

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Stoa

In Greek architecture, a linear building with one or more rows of columns. Stoas could be used for shops, meetings, or exhibitions

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Orchestra

 In Greek theater, the circular floor used for dancing

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Skene

the backdrop building in a classical theater

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Proskenion

the area directly in front of a skene in Greek theater

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Bouleterion

In classical Greek architecture, a building used for senate or council meetings with a nearly square plan with a columned porch and roof supported by exterior walls and four intermediate columns

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