Greek &Amp; Roman
Submitted by megotstyle on December 1, 2011
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Greek &Amp; Roman
The Greek and Roman architecture is very impressive for not only their era but also in our today’s time period. The Greek architecture uses the columns in almost all of their temples. The shape of the columns was something that was extremely important to the Greeks. There were three different types of columns. The “Doric”, “Ionic”, and the “Corinthian”. All of these columns were used for a center piece that would be for displaying their Greek God(s) with what ever decorations. Zeus the Temple of Olympian is an example of “Corinthian” columns. An example of “Doric” is the Temple of Poseidon, and Athens is an example of “Ionic” columns. The Greeks usually...
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