A building defined as a long open building with its roof supported by one or more rows of columns parallel to the rear wall.
What is a stoa?
100
A geographical area comprising a city and its adjacent territory, which together make up a single, self- governing political unit.
What is a polis?
100
The name and birthplace of the first recorded town planner of antiquity.
Who is Hippodamos of Miletos?
100
The feature of town planning in the Hellenistic period that remained the most convenient and the quickest method of establishing a new city.
What is regular grid planning?
100
The term used to describe Greek citizens of other states who live permanently in another city.
What is a metic?
200
From the beginning, the most characteristically Greek structure, found in every city?
What is an agora?
200
The process by which every town, village, and hamlet of a demos accepted a single political centre.
What is synoikism?
200
The Classical Period cities of Piraeus, Thourioi, and Rhodes.
What are the three cities thought to have been planned by Hippodamos?
200
The type of Hellenistic city characterized by a main axial road, the use of simple mathematical proportions for the planning of the house blocks, and an independently fortified citadel which overlooked the city.
What is a Seleucid city?
200
The three foodstuffs which collectively are referred to as the ‘Mediterranean Triad’.
What are olives, cereals, and grapes?
300
The century when contacts with the civilizations of the Near East were renewed, colonization began, and when the characteristic features of the polis stated to emerge?
What is the 8th century BC?
300
The type of Archaic Period government system, established both in Greece and in the west, that directly assisted in the process of urbanization.
What is tyranny?
300
The city typical of 5th century BC grid planning, where we see residential insulae divided into two rows of five houses of equal dimensions.
What is Olynthos?
300
The city that arguably represents the best example of Hellenistic monumental and scenographic town planning.
What is Pergamon?
300
In Greek religion, this term referred to the practice of sacrificing 100 oxen.
What is a hecatomb?
400
One of the two important Old cities of mainland Greece that we examined.
What is Athens or Corinth?
400
One of the two most important features of early Greek planning.
What is the policy of zoning or regular grid-layout of streets?
400
The vow to the gods that prevented the Athenians from rebuilding the structures on the Acropolis that were destroyed by the Persians in 480 BC.
What is the ‘Oath of Plataea’?
400
One of the two late Classical sites that perhaps provided the model for later Hellenistic Scenographic and monumental town planning.
What is the Sanctuary of Asklepios on Cos or the acropolis at Lindos on Rhodes?
400
One of the two most important Athenian state religious festivals.
What is the Panathenaia or the Greater Dionysia?
500
The city in Asia Minor, where towards the middle of the 9th century BC, the inhabitants constructed a city wall which represents the oldest urban fortifications in the Aegean.
What is Old Smyrna?
500
The mainland Greek city at which the earliest appearance of a regular grid plan is attested.
What is Halieis?
500
The unique building that was both the most sacred building on the Athenian acropolis, and was the last of the Periklean buildings to be completed.
What is the Erechtheion?
500
Named after the island on which it stood, it is the name by which the great lighthouse at Alexandria was known in antiquity.
What is the Pharos?
500
One of the two Panhellenic games that were held every two years?