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Vocabulary for Part 2
Persia & Babylon
Minoans & Myceneans
- cyclopean masonry
- fresco
- megaron
- tholos
Greece
- acropolis
- agora
- alexemata
- bouleuterion
- caryatid
- Hippodamian planning
- oikos
- pediment
- Pentellic marble
- periods: Primitive, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic
- sanctuary
- stoa
- temple; temple vocabulary from the Voice Thread/ThingLink
- theatre (& orchestra, cavea, skene)
- xoanon
Etruscan
- castrum
- domus (with atrium, impluvium, tablinum, peristyle & triclinium); for ThingLinks see here and here
- engaged column/ half-column
- mosaic
- necropolis
- porphyry
- tufa
- tesserae
- tumulus
- Tuscan Order
Roman
- aggregate (in concrete)
- amphitheater
- aqueduct
- apse
- arcade
- arches & vaults (types of)
- basilica
- baths/thermae (with frigidarium, tepidarium, & caldarium)
- buttress strip
- catenary curve
- centering
- coffer/coffering
- compression & tension (structural forces)
- [Roman] concrete
- damnatio memoriae
- forum/fora
- honorific column
- hypocaust heating
- keystone
- mausoleum
- porphyry
- pozzolana
- “sandwich wall”
- taberna/tabernae
- travertine
- triumphal arch
- velarium
- villa
- voussoir