Ancient Greek Architecture

Hadrian’s Library, Part 2: The Unexpected

A few posts back, we took a first look at Hadrian’s Library based on the plans and data from Athanasios Angelopoulos, focusing on the Library itself and the adjacent reading rooms and auditoriums. The general assessment is that rather than consistent use of Greek Feet in the design, what we actually see is a varietyContinue reading “Hadrian’s Library, Part 2: The Unexpected”

The Temple of Hephaestos at Athens: Several First Impressions

Attempting to continue onward with a study of Grecian temple architecture, we now come to the Temple of Hephaestos at Athens. This surprisingly intact ancient temple is another for which Athanasios Angelopoulos provided us with plans and data. It’s going to take some time and a fair amount of work to be sure to tryContinue reading “The Temple of Hephaestos at Athens: Several First Impressions”

The Parthenon: Some Initial Impressions

As I continue to search for previous work I’ve done on ancient Greek architecture, I discover that apparently I’ve never really posted about the Parthenon although I’ve done a little bit of previous work with it. I’ve been using Angelopouolos’s diagrams for that. Of course their figures aren’t identical but two other sources provide generalContinue reading “The Parthenon: Some Initial Impressions”

The Temple of Demeter at Eleusis (Again)

I continue to try to get a firmer grasp of ancient Greek architecture and its metrology, and of why some of these sites are giving me trouble. I’ve posited a number of possible reasons for the difficulty over the last few posts, but maybe the one that most merits more emphasis is the possibility thatContinue reading “The Temple of Demeter at Eleusis (Again)”

The Taming of the Skew

One possible reason I still can’t seem to make absolute sense of the Greek Temples that Marcello Raineri uses for his examples (see preceding post) could be because I am overlooking some ancient Greek unit of measure or other. With this in mind, I took a look at Wikipedia’s page on ancient Greek measures. However,Continue reading “The Taming of the Skew”

Greeks 1, Luke 0

I had to take down the last blog post on the Temple of Apollo at Didyma. I thought I’d finally got it figured out but I missed one important checkpoint and didn’t realize it until I proceeded to reuse the same formula on the data for the ostensibly equally-proportioned Temple of Artemis at Sardis, relyingContinue reading “Greeks 1, Luke 0”