THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE CLASSICAL TIMES

During the 5th and 4th centuries BC brilliant ______ and

public buildings were built all over Greece.

• temples

• houses

• buildings

In the classical era the _____, considered an invention

of the sculptor Callimachus, appears inside buildings.

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On the Acropolis of Athens are built the most brilliant classical buildings of antiquity, such as the ______, the majestic entrance to the Acropolis.

In the same period, and based on the same inspired building program of Pericles and his intellectual and artistic circle, the (a)   was built with the architects Iktinos and Kallikrates.

The temple of Athena Nike, an elegant work of art in the Ionic style, was also built at the same time on the Acropolis, according to plans by Kallikrates, while the _______ was also built in the same time, also in the Ionic style.

• Erechtheion

• Parthenon

• Propylaea

From the 5th century BC the ancient theaters also begin to be built with stone. The most famous among them is the theater of (a)  

The ancient theaters are built amphitheatrically, on the slope of a hill, where the seats – the cavity – of the theater are formed. Opposite the cave, on the ground, there is the flat circular space – ______ –, where the protagonists of the plays and the dance appeared.