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Charlotte Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Comission: Classical Orders of Columns
Review key features of the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders of ancient Greek architecture, with diagrams that label the cornice, frieze, architrave, metope, triglyph, capital, and column shaft of each order.
Boston College
Boston College: Doric Column
Here is an example of a Doric column for the Temple of Neptune at Paestum.
Merriam-Webster
Merriam Webster: Dictionary Illustration: Column Base
Labeled illustration of the principal parts of a column's base.
Read Works
Read Works: Architecture the Parthenon
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about The Parthenon as an example of ancient Greek architecture. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Curated OER
Charlotte Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Comission: Classical Orders of Columns
Review key features of the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders of ancient Greek architecture, with diagrams that label the cornice, frieze, architrave, metope, triglyph, capital, and column shaft of each order.
Curated OER
Charlotte Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Comission: Classical Orders of Columns
Review key features of the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders of ancient Greek architecture, with diagrams that label the cornice, frieze, architrave, metope, triglyph, capital, and column shaft of each order.
Curated OER
Charlotte Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Comission: Classical Orders of Columns
Review key features of the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders of ancient Greek architecture, with diagrams that label the cornice, frieze, architrave, metope, triglyph, capital, and column shaft of each order.
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The Stoa Consortium: The Library of Hadrian
The Library of Hadrian is located on the north side of the Acropolis, immediately north of the Roman Agora. The complex was built by the Roman emperor Hadrian in 131/2 A.D. It was visited by Pausanias (1.18.9) who provides a brief...
The British Museum
British Museum: Highlights of the Collection: Caryatid From the Erechtheion
View a highlight from the museum's collection of a caryatid, one of the original six column supports removed from the Erechtheum, an ancient Greek temple located on the Acropolis.
Boston College
Digital Archive of Architecture: Ionic Pillar
Here is a photo of an ionic column in the Erechtheum.