Glamourous Greeks
This Greek secular area was often used for gatherings.
What is an Agora
The head of a column, which is not the same thing as the head of a city.
What is a Capital?
Similar to its Greek counterpart, this was also a space used for gatherings. One notable difference, however, is that the Romans had used hemicycles.
What is a Forum
These are the largest and most well-preserved Roman bath houses, named after the city in which they were built.
What are the Caracella baths?
These are wedged bricks or stones used to make an arch.
What are voussoirs?
Definition of citadel.
What is a Mycenean military base built on high ground by the sea?
This baseless column with a fluted shaft features a rounded capital and is often considered one of the most robust forms of columns.
What is a Doric column?
With one running north/south, and the other running east/west, these were the 2 main roads used by the Romans.
What are Decumanus and Cardo?
This is the main, very large pool.
What is natatarium?
The term used to describe when a building is made entirely of arches.
What is Arcuated?
This Greek-operated citadel was often referred to as the "City of the Gods" due to many gods and goddesses having shrines built in or around it.
What is the Acropolis?
This fluted, slender column had a very distinct capital featuring volutes on either side.
What is an Ionic column?
This style of painting, used by Michelangelo in his early days, involves mixing plaster with pigment.
What is Fresco painting?
These were both the warm and hot, smaller pools.
What are Tepidarium and Caldarium
These are special arches, which were made in honor of military leaders.
What are triumphal arches?
This Bronze Age Greek temple featured an architectural form comprising an open porch, a vestibule, and a large hall.
What is the Megaron?
This style of column featured a slender, fluted shaft with an elaborate, bell-shaped capital decorated with acanthus leaves and scrolls
What is a Corinthian column
The definition of Aquaducts.
What are the highly engineered water lines that fed fountains and baths in the Roman cities?
The definition of Hypocausts.
What are the underground rooms that used fire to heat pipes for the hot/warm pools?
What are arches built into the wall?
Formed in 478 BCE, this alliance of Greek city-states was led by Athens, primarily as a defense against the Persians.
What is the Delian League
Description of a Composite Column.
What is a classical Roman style that blended features from both Ionic and Corinthian columns
These multi-story buildings, often built from concrete and brick, were effectively apartments and housed the majority of the Roman urban population.
What are insulae?
The name of this means "Cold container." It was the pool where bathers would cool off
What is Frigidarium
This term is used to describe a tunnel made only of arches.
What is a Barrel vault?