Ancient Greek Architecture Research Paper

The ancient Greek civilization provide some of the most attractive and unique architecture around the world. The Greek buildings are not famous because of its beautiful layout only but due to its excellence constriction, perfect proportions and well decorating. In the Greek civilization the most important and unique types of building are: the temples, Stoae, the treasures, theatres, and Domestic Houses (Khan Academy, 2018). First of all, the most known type of building in the Greek architecture is the "Temples". The temples took stages and steps in construction to output the well-known temple structure as we know it today. During the period between the 10th century BC and the 8th century BC, the temples were …show more content…
The stoea is usually located near the center of the city, in the Agora. The stoea is a very lengthy line walk with a roof on its top supported by columns. The structure of the stoea has two functions; the first function is that the stoea is used as shelter to protect the people from sun and rain. The other function is that it is used as market place with shops and entertainment place. The stoae of Attalos is a great stoae, its name refers to the name of king Attalos of pergamon. The stoae is made of pentalic marble and limestone, the exterior columns of the stoae are Doric style while the interior is ionic style (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2018). Thirdly, one of the huge types of buildings made in the Greek architecture is the Theatres. The main parts of the Greek theater are theatron, skene and orchestra. One of the famous theaters in Greek civilization is the theater of Dionysus, Athena. The theater detected to the god Dionysus. The theatre is almost circler with wooden scene at the back of the orchestra, the theatre have three parts of theatrons. One of the important things about this theatre that it has the oldest skene which still stands till today (ThoughtCo, 2018).