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    The Greek Temple

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    The architecture of ancient Greece is the architecture produced by the Greek-speaking people whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and in colonies in Anatolia and Italy for a period from about 900 BC until the 1st century AD, with the earliest remaining architectural works dating from around 600 BC. Nikolaus Pevsner refers to "the plastic shape of the temple.....placed before us with a physical presence more intense, more alive than that of any later

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    It is located in Didyma, near Miletus. The building has been under construction for such a long time that it was never actually completed ,due to its continuous development . The temple sits on a seven stepped crepidoma with a double colonnade (10x21) the columns were about 2 meters in diameter and 19.7 meters high. The bases of the columns differed from each other in pairs sideways from the main axis of the building. The interior space contains a small chamber, the 21 steps by the sides

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    ground plan. They were both rectangular in shape, consisted of a levelling course, three steps on top of the levelling course, and the stylobate on top of the steps marking the floor of the temple. The temple consisted on cult rooms surrounded by the colonnade. There were a few differences in column forms and entablature.

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    The architecture of the ancient Greeks, whose culture thrived on the Greek mainland and Peloponnesus, the Aegean Islands, and in colonies in parts of Asia and Italy for a period from about 900 BC until beginning of AD, with the earliest remaining architectural works of the Greek people dating from around 600BC. Ancient Greek architecture is best known for its many great temples, which were built in honour of the many Greek gods, many of which are found mostly as ruins today but many substantially

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    The Bank of England vs. the Altes Museum European countries often used elements of the Greek architecture in their buildings. They became a common part of official objects. The Bank of England (Great Britain) and the Altes Museum (Germany) are good examples of this borrowing. These buildings appeared in different countries and periods of time, but still have some similarities. Both structures belong to the neoclassicism. The list of similarities includes pale frontispiece, columns in front of the

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    “the Lincoln Memorial includes 36 (Doric) columns of Colorado marble, one for each state in the Union at the time of Lincoln’s death in 1865; each column stands 44 feet (13.4 metres) high. The names of the 48 contiguous states are listed above the colonnade, and the dates of their admission to the Union are engraved in Roman numerals.” Why do you think the architect(s) chose to copy the classical

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    floor of hard-packed clay was constructed in the second half of the 8th century BC.[7] The peripteral temple at Ephesus offers the earliest example of a peripteral type on the coast of Asia Minor, and perhaps the earliest Greek temple surrounded by colonnades

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    order to comply harmoniously with the design of the pavilion, and are joined only at the top with a decorative structural lattice. The vertical elements reach 7.8 metres in height, usually rounded up to 8 metres. This is also the extent of the colonnades of the surrounding buildings. A 3mm plate stainless steel canopy is held up by the vertical elements. The structure is standing at 45 degrees in order for it to be seen from the street front and create unison with the

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    Kian made his way along the west corridor, fashioned of the same rose and dark gray marble columns with black flooring as the east colonnade. There were no windows in this section. Several wrought-iron pendant lamps dotting the vaulted ceiling illuminated his path. To his right were heavy doors leading to rooms: the gym, sauna, steam room, showers and the pool. Further, along, a bend

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    How Did Hatshepsut Rule

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    Hatshepsut was the fifth pharaoh of the 18th dynasty she was the daughter of Thutmose I and Ahmose. Hatshepsut was known as the first female ruler of ancient Egypt. Hatshepsut was the first female to rule as a male, she ruled from 1479 to 1458 BCE. Hatshepsut became the queen of Egypt in the 18th dynasty when she married her half brother Thutmose II at 12 years old. After Thutmose II died Hatshepsut began acting as a ruler for Thutmose III which was her stepson (who was an infant). Hatshepsut ruled

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