THE ANCIENT GREEKS AND ANCIENT ROMANS LIVED THROUGHOUT AND 476A.D. THE GREEKS WHO INHABITTED THE CITY-STATES OF SPARTA AND ATHENS, AND THE ROMANS WHO LIVED, OF COURSE, IN ROME. THE GREEKS AND ROMANS WERE DIFFERENT IN THEIR VIEWS OF RELIGION AS SEEN IN ARCHITECTURE, SCULPTURE AND PHILOSOPHY.ARCHITECTUREPOST-MODERNISM CAN BE TRACED BACK TO THE SUPREME ARCHITECTURAL ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE GREEKS. THE GREATEST OF THESE WAS THE TEMPLE. THE TEMPLE WAS A SACRED STRUCTURE DESIGNED TO HOUSE THE CULT STATUES AND CIVIC DIETIES. THEESE EARLY HOUSES OF WORSHIP WERE MOST LIKELY MADE OF WOOD, WHICH EXPLAINS WHY NONE OF THESE GREEK TEMPLES REMAIN TODAY. HOWEVER, AS THE GREEKS BECAME MORE POWERFUL AND MORE WEALTHY EACH POLIS REBUILT ITS WOODEN TEMPLES WITH NEW ONES MADE FROM STONE. THE EARLIEST TEMPLE FORM WAS CALLED DORIC. IT WAS SIMPLE IN DESIGN AND VERY LITTLE DETAIL. LATER THE GREEKS BECAME MORE INTERESTED IN THE MATHEMATICAL PROPORTIONS OF THE TEMPLE. THIS WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY USING A RATIO BETWEEN THE NUMBER OF COLUMNS ON EACH SIDE OF THE BUILDING. THIS BECAME A STANDARD IN GREEK ARCHITECTURE. EVEN BEFORE THE TEMPLE, ANCIENT GREECE HAD SANCTUARIES. THESE WERE PLACES THAT WERE CONSIDERED SACRED FOR A GOD OR GODESS. LATER IN THE GREEK EMPIRE, WITH THE RISE OF THE POLIS, THE IDEA OF A HOLY PLACE AWAY FROM THE HASSELS OF EVERYDAY LIFE WAS FITTED TO THE NEEDS OF EACH COMMUNITY. EACH POLIS HAD ITS OWN SACRED AREA, USUALLY ON A HILL OR PROTECTED FROM SOME SORTOF DIVIDING BARRIER, WHICH CONTAINED BUILDINGS AND ALTARS. THIS IS WHERE ONE GOD OR GODESS WAS SINGLED OUT AS PATRON, ALTHOUGH THEY WORSHIPPED THE ENTIRE PANTHEON OF GODS. THE TEMPLE WAS BUILT IN THIS AREA TO HOUSE THE PATRON STATUE. LATER YET, IN THE GREEK EMPIRE, THE ALTAR BECAME A MORE IMPORTANT FEATURE IN GREEK ARCHITECTURE. THE ALTAR IS THE OLDEST RELIGIOUS STRUCTURE IN THE GREEK WORLD AND IT WAS THE SITE IN WHICH HOLY SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS WERE MADE. THE ALTAR WAS SECOND...
