A walk through the early hellenistic period of greek between 321 BCE TO 31 BCE with detailed description of the city of Priene. Typical features of all the Greek periods may be identified from the first few slides. It is a good reference to first year B.Arch students of M.G University, Kerala

2. ҉321 BCE-31 BCE
҉Three realms emerged:
Antigonid Empire(Greece)
Seleucid Empire(Mesopotamia & Persia)
Ptolemaic Empire (Egypt,
Palestine, Cyrenaica)

3. Characters at a glance
• Public buildings
• Town planning
• Arches & Trusses
Corinthian order was
popular
Hellenistic cities
oPriene
oPergamum
oAlexandria
oDura Europos
oDelos
oRhodes

4. Important features
Theatre
Temple
Villas
Palaces
Libraries
Stadia
Streets
Agora
Stoa

5. FEATURES
1)Villas
Internal courtyard
Two storeys common
2)Library
Library at Pergamum
held up 200,000
volumes

6. 3)Palaces
Palace of Macedonian
Kings:
Superstructure - unburnt
brick
Courtyard with 16 columns
on each side
Rooms on all four sides
South rooms-mosaic floors;
separate vestibule; marble
threshold

7. Palace of Alexandria
҉collection of buildings
҉Religious, administrative, reception and garrison
buildings
҉Museum and Library
҉Luxurious Dining pavilion-100 couches
Other royal buildings
҉Less spectacular
҉Modest houses at elevated position in citadel town

8. 4)Theatres
Theatre
Auditorium
for thousands
Orchestra
where chorus
danced and
sang
Stage
building
Separated
from
auditorium
by a
passage

9. Theatre of Dionysus
ORCHESTRA
STAGE
BUILDING
SEATING

10. e)Stadium
The stadium at Epidaurus
was placed in a natural
elongated hollow with stone
seating.
It forms the part of natural
contour.
The people adopted a
method that followed the lay
of the land.

11. 6)Circuit walls
# protected &defined city
# lime-washed mud-brick fortifications
# Facing-stone with varying fills
#Tower, rampart walks, parapets
5)Funerary Architecture
rock-cut tombs cut into cliffs
Some had stairway approach
chambers opening off a courtyard

12. P
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CITY
OF

13. Major
religious
and
economic
centre.
Occupies
a sloping
ground.
Not all
the area
within the
city walls
was
occupied.

14. Proper
town
planning
can
be
seen;
GRID
PATTERN.

15. From
south to
north, the
STREETS
are almost
narrower.
a skillful
play of solids
and voids and
of private and
public zones
NARROW
WIDER
ROAD

16. At the centre-AGORA
occupying two blocks of
the grid.
AGORA
Juts out from the
grid.
Does not align
with the side
streets.

17. Agora completely
surrounded by STOAS
Built in
DORIC order

18. Behind the north
stoa-
ASSEMBLY HALL

19. Holds perhaps
640 people
Constructed with limestone.
Stone seats arranged in straight
lines round three sides.

20. West-TEMPLE
OF ATHENA
POLIAS,
Greek Goddess of
wisdom, courage &
inspiration

21. East-THEATRE
North- SANCTUARY
dedicated to Demeter
A GYMNASIUM at
the lower edge