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The Ancient Greeks introduced the three main orders of columns that we still have today. The three orders are Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian columns, and even though these columns have progressed thr…
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The Parthenon in Nashville's Centennial Park is a full-scale copy of the original Greek Parthenon; it was initially built in 1897 as part of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition of plaster, wood, and brick. In 1920 the Parthenon was rebuilt on the same foundations, in concrete, in a project that was completed in 1925; the interior was completed in 1931.
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Some column styles found on today's homes have an interesting history. Here are some of the many column types found in architecture through the ages.
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The Doric order is the earliest of the classical orders developed by Archaic Greek civilization and was by far the most popular of the three. The eponymous Dorians were the dominant tribe of the four main peoples forming ancient Greece and the Dorian dialect was spoken in a great southward arc stretching across the Aegean from Corfu to the lower Peloponnesian Peninsula and on to the islands of Crete and Rhodes. (Above, the Hephaisteion or Theseion, a remarkably preserved Doric temple located…
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