Architecture in Ancient Greece

Greek architecture is familiar to us because the Romans and later cultures copied and modified it. We focus on the Greek temple because the Greeks did not build large homes or palaces. The temple was not actually a place in which the faithful worshipped, for Greek religious rituals were conducted at an altar outside the temple. Rather, the temple itself was a shrine housing the cult statue of the god or goddess. The temples of the Greeks were often on an acropolis, a hill above the city, and they were not huge, at least compared with Near Eastern or Egyptian architecture.

	The Athenian Acropolis
	The Parthenon, including its metopes and frieze
	Theater at Epidauros

Comparison of major styles
Doric order	Ionic order	Corinthian order