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Architecture
The
Acropolis, from The Greeks documentary
- 3D
Modelling of Miletus
(a project of the Foundation of the Hellenic World of Athens)
includes views of 10 buildings of Miletus including a stadium,
the Bouleuterion (Council House), a sacred gate, the Altar of
Poseidon, and more.
Links To Pillars
- Ancient Greece,ancient art,greek architecture,temple,Doric style,Ionic Order,Corinthian,architecture
in Greece, Parthenon, Erechtheum, Acropolis, Apollo at Didyma,
statue of Apollo, Temple of Athena Nike, Greek Jewelry, ancient
Coin, Vase, Sculpture, statue, Athena Polias, metopes, pediments
and frieze. http://www.ancientgreece.com/html/art_frame.htm
- Classical Greek Architecture
http://harpy.uccs.edu/greek/classgrkarch.html
- Specific Columns
http://www.tulane.edu/lester/text/Western.Architect/Greece/Greece.html
- The
Ancient City of Athens
is a collection of pictures collected for Indiana University.
[a Top 5% Site]
- Especially
useful for teachers and students creating webpages is the section
called "Sites and Monuments" which has more than
400 photographs of such famous sites as the Parthenon, Acropolis,
temples, arches, and parts of the ancient city of Athens. For
examples of these sites, see:
- Ancient
Sites Walking Tours of Athens
offers three "virtual tours of ancient Athens" with
high quality computer graphics and effective explanations of
what you are seeing. One tour (approximately 5 minutes) is of
an Athenian home. Another tour (15 minutes) takes you to the
Acropolis with an architect in 415 B.C.E., and the third tour
(10 minutes) takes you to the Acropolis with a philosopher in
415 B.C.E.
- "Restoring
Virtual Ruins" The Digital Museum site (from Scientific
American Magazine) shows how digital images can create computer
models for reconstructions.
- The
Acropolis of Athens
briefly introduces this famous site and its ruins. (Hellenic
Ministry of Culture)
- City
of Knossos
(Minoan Civilization) and the Palace of Knossos - This site includes
an artist's conception of the ancient Palace of Knossos and an
Image Gallery with 16 images of the Palace. Minos is the home
of the mythological Minotaur killed by the hero Theseus, and
where Daedalus built the labyrinth and escaped by learning how
to fly - only to lose his son Icarus. The Minoan civilization
flourished early in the history of ancient Greece. An artist's
idea of The
Palace of Knossos (Dilos Holiday World) is also shown at
his site.
- Greek
Temples
are presented (in architectural plans and with photographs) and
style (orders of Doric and Ionian columns and capitals) at this
site from Japan entitled Greek Art and Archaeology.
- Period
and Style for Designers: Greece
has images of buildings, ornamentation and furniture of ancient
Greece.
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