Doric, Ion and Corinth: These are three varieties of classic columns, as everyone who has somehow passed through the Western schools remembers. More specifically, we may still remember them, as representing three ancient Greek architectural styles. But as ancient historical YouTuber Garrett Ryan points out new It was told in stone The above videoonly the Doric and Ion pillars belong completely to ancient Greece. When we think about the Corinthian column, what we think was more developed in ancient Roman civilizations. The context is an explanation of how the ancient Greeks built temples, and one feature of the design process is the use of columns.
It is one thing to hear about Greek pillars in the classroom, and walking in person within them is a whole other thing. That’s probably why Ryan delivers the opening of his video, where he perched in the ruins of what is known as Temple C.
His channel may be called It was told in stoneRyan begins his brief history of Greek temples before sturdy materials are used for these purposes. First, the Greeks built the house of God out of mud bricks with muddy roofs and wooden porches. Only from the 7th century BC “presumably inspired by contact with Egypt” they began to make them last longer.
Or, given the nature of the material available in the ancient world and the thousands of years that have passed since, they built them to last as long as they could be expected. take Temple of Apollo in the sanctuary of Didima, modern Turkeywhich history and architecture YouTuber Manuel Bravo pays for the visit The video above. It may seem like nearly 2,400 years since construction began, which has never been completed with technology, is not a good thing, but it is still one of the better preserved temples of ancient Greek civilizations that exist (not to mention the largest). Even in ruined states, it gives what Bravo describes as an impression of a “Great Pillar Forest” or at least as an impression of its heyday. They are ion pillars, but don’t sweat. There are no quizzes.
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Based in Seoul Colin marshall Write and broadcasting stationTS about cities, languages, and culture. His projects include the Substack Newsletter Books about cities And the book The Stateless City: Walking through 21st century Los Angeles. Follow him on social networks previously known as Twitter @colinmarshall.
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