Doric, Ionic, Corinthian: these, like practically all those who crossed the school in the West in a way, are the three varieties of classical column. We can still recall them, more precisely, as representing the three ancient Greek architectural styles. But as Youtuber Garrett Ryan points out the new Stone video aboveOnly the Doric and Ionic columns fully belong to ancient Greece; What we think when we think of the Corinthian columns has been developed more in the civilization of ancient Rome. The context is an explanation for the way in which the ancient Greeks have built their temples, one of the characteristics of their design process being the use of abundance columns.
It's one thing to hear about Greek columns in class, and another thing to walk in the middle of them. This is perhaps the reason why Ryan delivers the opening of his video perched on the ruins of what is known as the Temple C., having once held proudly in Sélinus, a city belonging to Magna Graecia (Greek areas of Italy), it is now one of the main tourist attractions for visitors to antiquity for modern times.
Although his channel can be called StoneRyan begins his brief history of the Greek temple before this rustic material was even used for these purposes. At the beginning, the Greeks shaped the houses of their gods of mud brick, with thatched roofs and wooden porches; It was not until the seventh century BC, “probably inspired by contact with Egypt”, they started to build them to last.
Or they built them to last as long as expected, in any case, given the nature of the materials available in the ancient world and the millennia that have passed since then. Take THE Temple of Apollo at the sanctuary of Didyma in Modern TürkiyeWhat history and architecture youtuber Manuel Bravo visit to The video just above. It may not seem that nearly 2,400 years since the start of its never technically completed construction have been nice, but it is nevertheless one of the most preserved temples of the old Greek civilization that exists (not to mention the biggest). Even in its ruined state, it gives what Bravo describes as the impression of – or at least, to its peak, having been – a forest of enormous columns “, a built version of” the sacred forests that the Greeks used to devote to the gods “. They are ionic columns, in case you ask yourself the question, but do not transpire;
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