Department of History

Fieldston School .

The Birth of Modern Europe

CLASSICAL GREEK ARCHITECTURE: TERMS

Orders

Tuscan (pre-classical)

Doric

Ionic

Corinthian

Composite (Roman)

Elements (of a Greek “temple front”)

pediment

entablature

cornice

dentils (Corinthian)

mutule (Doric)

guttae (Doric)

frieze

triglyph (Doric)

metope (Doric)

high and low relief (Ionic and Corinthian)

architrave

column

capital

abacus (Doric)

echinus (Doric)

volute (Ionic)

acanthus (Corinthian)

shaft

flutes

entasis (Doric)

base (Ionic and Corinthian)