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- High Classical frieze: Panathenaic Ritual, Parthenon, Athens (en)
- Top: The Parthenon ; Centre: The Erechtheion ; Bottom: Illustration of Doric , Ionic and Corinthian columns (en)
- The lion's head gargoyle is fixed to a revetment on which elements of a formal frieze have been painted. (en)
- The Theatre and Temple of Apollo in mountainous country at Delphi (en)
- The Parthenon, shows the common structural features of Ancient Greek architecture: crepidoma, columns, entablature, pediment. (en)
- left: Architectural elements of the Doric order showing simple curved echinus of capital (en)
- Pebble mosaic floor of a house at Olynthos, depicting Bellerophon (en)
- A sectioned nautilus shell. These shells may have provided inspiration for voluted Ionic capitals. (en)
- The Acropolis, Athens, is high above the city on a natural prominence. (en)
- Ionic caryatid from the Erechtheion, Athens (en)
- The entablature showing the architrave, frieze with triglyphs and metopes and the overhanging cornice (en)
- Plan of the House of Colline, 2nd century BC (en)
- Porta Rosa, a street Velia, Italy (en)
- Archaic metope: Perseus and Medusa, Temple C at Selinunte. (en)
- The Bouleuterion, at Priene (en)
- The House of Masks (en)
- The House of Masks, Delos, 3rd century BC (en)
- The Islands of the Aegean from Cape Sounion (en)
- The Stadium at Epidauros (en)
- The Theatre of Dionysus, Athens (en)
- The altar of Hiero II at Syracuse (en)
- The main lines of the Parthenon are all curved. (en)
- The mosaic floor of a house at Delos (en)
- The rugged indented coastline at Rhamnous, Attica (en)
- Temple of Hephaestos, fluted Doric columns with abacuses supporting double beams of the architrave (en)
- Right: Recreation of the colossal statue of Athena, once housed in the Parthenon, with sculptor Alan LeQuire (en)
- The reconstructed Stoa of Attalos, the Agora, Athens (en)
- Hellenistic frieze: Battle of Gods and Titans, the Pergamon Altar. (en)
- Erechtheion: masonry, door, stone lintels, coffered ceiling panels (en)
- Frieze of stylised alternating palms and reeds, and a cornice decorated with "egg and dart" moulding. (en)
- Above: Modern model of ancient Olympia with the Temple of Zeus at the centre (en)
- This Archaic gorgon's head antefix has been cast in a mould, fired and painted. (en)
- The Kritios Boy, , typifies the tradition of free-standing figures (en)
- Black figure Amphora, Atalante painter , shows proportion and style that are hallmarks of ancient Greek art (en)
- above: Capital of the Corinthian Order showing foliate decoration and vertical volutes. (en)
- At the Temple of Aphaia, the hypostyle columns rise in two tiers, to a height greater than the walls, to support a roof without struts. (en)
- above: Capital of the Ionic order showing volutes and ornamented echinus (en)
- Diagram showing the optical corrections made by the architects of the Parthenon (en)
- The tall capital combines both semi-naturalistic leaves and highly stylised tendrils forming volutes. (en)
- The tapered fluted columns, constructed in drums, rest directly on the stylobate. (en)
- The Palaestra at Olympia, used for boxing and wrestling (en)
- The growth of the nautilus corresponds to the Golden Mean (en)
- Corner capital with a diagonal volute, showing also details of the fluting separated by fillets. (en)
- Severe Classical metope: Labours of Hercules, Temple of Zeus, Olympus (en)
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- Structure, masonry, openings and roof of Greek temples (en)
- Architectural ornament of fired and painted clay (en)
- Metopes, friezes and caryatid (en)
- Orders of ancient Greek architecture (en)
- The Corinthian Order (en)
- The Doric Order (en)
- The Ionic Order (en)
- The Temple of Zeus Olympia, Athens, (en)
- The Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens: a building of asymmetrical plan, for the display of offerings to Athena (en)
- The Temple of Hephaestos, Athens, is a well-preserved temple of peripteral hexastyle plan. (en)
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