CLASSICS 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Corbel Arch, Lion Gate, Discharging Arch

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Classics
• Course: CLASSICS 1A03
• Professor: Michele George

Document Summary

Megaron = large reception hall, focus of mycenaean palace complexes: most important room in a mycenaean palace, open room (cid:862)megaro(cid:374)(cid:863) is a word we get fro(cid:373) ho(cid:373)er(cid:859)s epi(cid:272)s. Anta (pl. antae) = projecting spur walls in the font of a porch or room. Distyle in antis = two columns placed between antae. Relieving triangle = void left above lintel block to alleviate weight. Corbelled vault = vault constructed by set of concentric courses of stones that progressively decrease in diameter: concentric: circles that get smaller and smaller as you go up (like a beehive) Lion gate & fortification wall built c. 1250 bc. Post & lintel (horizontal top piece 5m long 20 tonnes (20, 000kg) Monumental scale = designed to impress/aw (both welcoming & forbidding) Lionesses in heraldic pose (heads in wood) = engage viewer: facing each other with a column between them, shows minoan influence on the mycenaeans. Excavated by heinrich schliemann (in 1874: before that, schliemann excavated troy.