Editing Ancient Greek architecture (section)

==== Openings ====
Door and window openings were spanned with a lintel, which in a stone building limited the possible width of the opening. The distance between columns was similarly affected by the nature of the lintel, columns on the exterior of buildings and carrying stone lintels being closer together than those on the interior, which carried wooden lintels.<ref name=BF5>{{harvnb|Fletcher|1996|p=107}}.</ref><ref name=BF20>{{harvnb|Fletcher|1996|p=155}}.</ref> Door and window openings narrowed towards the top.<ref name="BF20" /> Temples were constructed without windows, the light to the naos entering through the door. It has been suggested that some temples were lit from openings in the roof.<ref name="BF5" /> A door of the Ionic Order at the Erechtheion (17 feet high and 7.5 feet wide at the top) retains many of its features intact, including mouldings, and an entablature supported on console brackets. <small>(See Architectural Decoration, below)</small><ref name="BF20" /><ref name="BF21">{{harvnb|Fletcher|1996|p=159}}.</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Boardman|Dorig|Fuchs|Hirmer|1967|p=25}}.</ref>

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|header    = Structure, masonry, openings and roof of Greek temples
|image1    =O Partenon de Atenas.jpg
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|caption1  = The [[Parthenon]], shows the common structural features of Ancient Greek architecture: ''crepidoma'', columns, entablature, pediment.
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|caption2  = [[Temple of Hephaestos]], fluted Doric columns with abacuses supporting double beams of the architrave
|image3    = Erecteion interior del portico.JPG
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|caption3  = [[Erechtheion]]: masonry, door, stone lintels, coffered ceiling panels
|image4    =Templo de Afaia3.JPG
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|caption4  = At the [[Temple of Aphaia]], the hypostyle columns rise in two tiers, to a height greater than the walls, to support a roof without struts.
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