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Greek Architecture. Palace at Knossos, Crete, c. 1500 BC. Palace at Knossos, Crete, c. 1500 BC. Lion Gate Mycenae c. 1300 BC. Lion Gate, Mycenae, c. 1300 BC. Temple of Hera at Paestum c. 550 BC. The Acropolis, Athens, Greece, c. 450BC. Temple of Athena Nike, c. 425 BC, Kallikrates.
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frieze • In architecture this is the wide central section part of an entablature and may be plain in the Ionic or Doric order, or decorated with bas-reliefs.
caryatid • a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head.
Theater at Epidauros, Greece, C. 350 BC Polykleitos the Younger