This paper will compare and contrast the Temple of Athena Nike (a Greek building) with the Temple of Fortuna Virilis (a Roman building). The Temple of Athena Nike was built in the late fifth century BC, and it is one of the buildings on the Acropolis of Athens. Although it is much smaller than the surrounding structures, the temple has a sense of prominence, because it is the first thing visitors see when they arrive at the Acropolis (Tansey and Kleiner 156). The plan for the temple was created by the architect Kallikrates. It is rectangular in shape, and it contains a small room, known as a cella, with an open doorway at its front. In ... Showed first 120 words of 2153 Size (words) ...

... Continuing with another 115 out of 2153 Size (words) ...and thus needed to be designed with a clear-cut façade (Jordan 46). This helps to explain why the Roman temple has only one “real” façade, with the other sides all being “fake.” In contrast to the Temple of Athena Nike, it was designed to have a “definite front from which it was meant to be viewed” (Watterson 48).

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Dinsmoor, William Bell. The Architecture of Ancient Greece: An Account of Its Historic Development. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1975.

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