Britt-Agrigento - July 31, 2023

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Good morning Britt

Today was your first exposure to ancient temples.

When we were there you did a great job remembering the parts of the temple.

Let's see how you do two years to the day later.

This is a hard quiz. Good luck!

Name the numbered parts in the above diagram:

1. The entire top portion of the temple *

Pediment Entablature Metope Architrave

2. The tall thing that holds the roof and all the stuff above them up *

Cornice Column Base Capital

3. What is the decorative top of a column? *

Campidoglio Capital Capitoleea Casablanca

4. What is the space between the bottom of the roof (the flat part) and the top of the roof (the pointy part) called? *

Cornice Pediment Shaft Freize

5. What is the wide flat part at the base of the pediment called. It runs the full width of the temple. It quite often has relief sculptures in it for decoration or is painted. *

Frozen Freize Abacus Volute

6. In the freize, in the left temple above, are a series of three vertical lines. What are these called. Remember when you answer that they are always in threes. *

Quadglyph Triglyph Quintglyph Rakinglyph

7. What type of capital is this? *

Doric Ionic Corrinthiam

8. What type of capital is this? *

Doric Ionic Corrinthian

9. The drawing on the left is of a Greek Temple (The kind we saw at Agrigento) and the drawing on the right shows a Roman Temple. What gives us a major clue that it is a Greek temple?

Comment *

10. In the photo above, what other feature of the temple tells us that this is a Greek Temple?

Comment *

11. In the above photo, what were you sitting in? *

Acropolis Necropolis Thoro Necripilean

12. What is this guy? (And can you spell it correctly?) *

13. What is the name of the car shown above? *

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