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- Triglyph
- An ornament in a Doric frieze, consisting of a projecting block having on its face two parallel vertical glyphs or grooves and two half grooves or chamfers on either vertical end, that separates the metopes.
- Polykleitos
- developed calssic canon of proportions
- Pericles
- 5th century Athenian statesman
- Encaustic
- Painting method using melted wax
- Myron
- sculptor of the Discobolos
- Entasis
- slight convex corvature of a column
- Cella
- Main chamber of a temple holding the cult stature
- Dionysos
- God of wine
- Praxiteles
- sculptor of Hermes and Dionysos
- Alexander the Great
- spread Greek culture through his conquest
- Abacus
- Top part of a capital making transition to architrave
- Volute
- Ornament from Ionic capital resembling a rolled scroll
- Propylaia
- Entrance gateway
- Exekias
- black-figure vase painter
- Centaur
- Half man, half horse
- Iktinos and Kallikrates
- Architects of parthenon
- Athena
- Warrior goddess, protectress of Athens
- Architrave
- Lowest division of the entablature of a temple
- Caryatid
- Female figure used as a column
- Pediment
- Triangular space formed by roof and cornice