Clipart illustrations of ancient Greek architecture. Greek architecture is most noted for their use of columns and for being the first civilization that constructed for art as well as functionality.
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Tetrastyle
"Elevation of a Greek Ionic attached Tetrastyle in Antis." — Encyclopedia Britanica, 1893... |
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The Parthenon
The Parthenon is a temple of the Greek Goddess Athena, who was considered as the protector of the city of Athens. The Temple was built in the 5th B.C. on Athenian Acropolis. The Parthenon is designed... |
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Theater of Dionysus
An illustration of the theater of Dionysus at Athens.... |
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Theater, Epidauros
A medium sized greek theater. ... |
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Theatre at Iassus, Ground Plan
The theatres were originally built on a very large scale to accommodate the large number of people on stage, as well as the large number of people in the audience, up to fourteen thousand. Mathematics... |
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Theatre Plan, Greek
O, orchestra; L, logeion; P, paraskenai; SK, skene; ST, stoa.... |
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Theatrum
"Theatrum, a theatre. The Athenians before the time of Aeschylus had only a wooden scaffolding on which their dramas were performed. Such a wooden theatre was only erected for the time of the Dionysia... |
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Thebes
The principal city of Baeotia, in ancient Greece, was situated in the south part of the country, onm the slopes of Mt. Teumessus, and between two streams, the Dirce and the Ismenus.... |
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Theseum restored
"The Theseum is situated on a height to the north of the Areopagus, and was built to receive the bones of Theseus, which Cimon brought from Seyros in B.C. 469. It was probably finished about 465, and... |
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Theseus, Temple of
"The Temple of Theseus at Athens." —D'Anvers, 1895... |
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Tile from the Temple of Diana at Ephesus, Facade
On the apex and two lower angles of the pediment were introduced acroteria, sometimes ornaments of flowers and tendrils, and sometimes statues of gods or animals. These were placed on small pedestals,... |
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Tower of the Winds
The Tower of the Winds, also called horologion (timepiece), is an octagonal Pentelic marble clocktower on the Roman agora in Athens. The structure features a combination of sundials, a water clock and... |
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Treasury of Atreus, Pillar
Peculiar vaulted buildings often existed in connection with the palaces for the preservation of valuables; the base of these treasure-houses is circular, and their covering of a dome shape; it does no... |
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Treasury of Atreus, Section
Peculiar vaulted buildings often existed in connection with the palaces for the preservation of valuables; the base of these treasure-houses is circular, and their covering of a dome shape; it does no... |
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Triglyph
A triglyph is an ornament on a Doric frieze, consisting of three square projections, or parallel nicks, and supposed to represent the ends of beams.... |
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Troy
"The walls of Homeric Troy, built about 1500 B.C." -Breasted, 1914... |
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Volute of an Ionic Capital, Section
These volutes, or scrolls, when viewed from the side, appear to meet in the middle, and form a wavy line over the echinus. The intervals of the spiral coils are slightly hollowed, in order to bring th... |
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Zeus, Temple of the Olympian
"Athens is said to have derrived its name from the prominence given to its worship of Athena by its king erechtheus. The inhabitants were previously called Crannai and Cecropidae, from Cecrops, who, ... |