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Examples of the buttress, a device from Classical architecture to strengthen a wall and increase its load-bearing capacity. Roman houses, Rome.

The 2nd century BCE Temple of Portunus, Rome. The façades carry two engaged Inoic columns.

The entablature of the Temple of Athena, Priene (Turkey), 340-156 BCE. The cornice decoration includes egg-and-tongue designs and also visible is a lion-head water spout.

The west pediment of the temple of Aphaia, 500-490 BCE.

Column drums from the temple of Zeus at Olympia, 457 BCE. The central hole can be clearly seen which, with a wooden peg, helped hold the column drums in place.

A view of the parodoi - the monumental gate entrances common to Classical theatres through which the audience entered the theatre.

The remains of the 1st century BCE Roman theatre of Gades (Cadiz, Spain).

10th century CE Greek copy of Aristarchus of Samos's calculations of the relative sizes of the sun, moon and the earth.

A representation of the Titan Oceanus, a figure from Greek mythology who was a personification of the river or ocean which encircled the world and was the source of all other rivers. With the Titan Tethys, he was the father of the Oceanids...

A plan of the acropolis of Mycenae, 1500-1200 BCE. Fortification walls are indicated in brown.