Lecture 3: Bronze age Mycenae and Crete. Earliest Greek temples. The Doric order

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Lions Gate.jpg (68048 bytes) Lion Gate, Citadel, Mycenae, c. 1250 BC

 

Tholos tomb, the so-called "Treasury of Atreus", Mycenae, c. 1300-1250 BC

Entrances to the Tholos Tom.jpg (57485 bytes) Entrance and dromos   Plan Treasury of Atreaus.jpg (46175 bytes) Plan and section

Tomb fo Aganemnon.jpg (56620 bytes) Reconstructed entrance    Tomb Treasury of Atreas.jpg (52412 bytes) Interior

 

Palace of Knossos, Crete, c. 1600-1500 BC

Bull Dancers.jpg (63941 bytes) Bull dancers wall painting  Palace of minos North entra.jpg (64965 bytes) North Entrance colonnade

Palace of minos Throne Room.jpg (64643 bytes) Throne Room   Palace of minos west wing.jpg (63280 bytes) West wing

 

The Invention of the Doric Order and the Earliest Greek Temples

Temple Hecatompedons copy.jpg (50472 bytes) Reconstructions of the plans of first and second temples of Hera, Samos; section of second temple showing the development of the peristyle

Hera & Artemis temple copy.jpg (27896 bytes) Comparison of a reconstruction of the second temple of Hera, Samos, with the temple of Artemis, Corfu, showing the different proportions of timber and masonry temples

 Temple Construction copy.jpg (55849 bytes) The layout of a Greek Temple Temple Order copy.jpg (64944 bytes) The parts of the Doric Order

Doric Order Drawing copy.jpg (48439 bytes) The elements of the Doric Order Doric Order copy.jpg (64386 bytes) The elements of the capital and shaft

Doric Temple copy.jpg (33836 bytes) Diagram illustrating the two possible solutions to the triglyph problem: widening the metopes or narrowing the intercolumniation close to the corner