The Map of Ancient Greece

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Athens: The great capital of ancient Greece has a lot of really interesting constructions like The Parthenon, The Amphitheatre, The great Agora of Athens and of course The Acropolis. 
The Acropolis contains: 
- Stoa of Eumenes
- Statue of the Great Athena 
- Odeon of Herodes Atticus 
- Theatre of Dionysus 
- The Parthenon
- All the other vital constructions in the Greek Period.


Sparta: There are some architectural constructions in Sparta like The Bouleuterion of Sparta because of its famous governmental methods. However the main attraction in Sparta is the sculptures.


Olympia: Olympia is famous for hosting the Olympic games in The Olympic stadium. The Olympic games were made to favour the Gods and Goddesses. It is also very famous to the world for the magnificent Temple of Zeus of Olympia that was dedicated to the main God Zeus.

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Greek Temples

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Most ancient Greek temples were 2 times as long as they were wide. The Greek architects first developed the idea of columns holding up the ceiling and was specially planed. There were different kinds of temples there were small temples like this:

Naos is where the people used to come in and pray to their gods. There were lots of different temples that were made in favour of their main god that they worshipped.

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