Evaluation:
Published: 29.07.2006.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Ancient Greek Architecture', 1.
  • Essays 'Ancient Greek Architecture', 2.
Extract

Greek Architecture is the most important and influential in Western history reaching a peak between 400 and 300 BC. They developed a new form of architecture that had little to do with function and everything to do with aesthetics and the Athenian way of life. Ancient Athenian Architecture was both diverse and innovative and gives us greater insight into the culture, life style and religion of the ancient Athenians.
Greece was rightly seen as a historic frontier, the root of western architecture. …

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