Question
Module 1
According to Professor Tilson’s lecture on Ancient India and
Asia, the stupa derives its form and primary meaning from the
primitive funerary cairn or tumulus erected over the mortal remains
of distinguished persons.
According to Professor Tilson’s lecture on Greece, a megaron
was a rectangular enclosed space used for sacrifice, guests of the
king to stay overnight, and poetry.
The Greek temple is separated from the earth by the stylobate
Viharas were small Buddhist monasteries
According to Professor Tilson’s lecture on Ancient India and
Asia, a monastery developed from the Sanskrit meaning a “secluded
place to walk” and associated with sanctuary and refuge is also
called a vihara
Peculiar to the Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassai are:
Ionic columns projecting from the interior walls of the cella,
peripteral Doric columns, a single Corinthian column in the cella
Pylon gateways were often fronted by obelisks
According to Professor Tilson’s lecture on Ancient India and
Asia, the Lingaraja temple in Bhubaneshwar is organized
around a “world axis” that connects heaven and earth. From the
exterior this axis is realized in a tower called a shikhara
According to Professor Tilson’s lecture on Egypt, the pyramid
visualizes the emergence of: the primordial mountain from the seas
According to Professor Tilson’s lecture on Greece, the
ultimate backdrop of any Greek play was the distant landscape, home
of heroes, gods and mortal man
According to Professor Tilson’s lecture on Mesopotamia, a
ziggurat: rises out of the earth-and sometimes the literal flood
waters, is a symbolic mountain, expresses a ritualistic function
Hindu temples include forms that are symbolic of the holy
mountainThe palace at Khorsabad was organized by means of courtsA
trilithon at Stonehenge consists of two, upright stones capped by a
lintelA ratha is a wheeled cart or chariot
According to Professor Tilson’s lecture on Greece, the wall
construction called the Lion’s Gate at Mycenae is considered
Cyclopean due to the immense scale of the stone blocks
The Erectheion is unusual for a Greek temple in being built
on irregular topography and the downslope of the Acropollis
According to Professor Tilson’s lecture on Greece, an aerial
view of the acropolis showing the route of the Panathenaic Way
clearly marks the century’s old path. From this view, it is obvious
that the path follows the lineof the topography
According to Professor Tilson’s lecture on Ancient India and
Asia, virtually every surface of a Hindu temple
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