Stone
Several varieties of stone were employed in ancient Greek architecture, including (poros) limestone, conglomerate, breccia, granite, gneiss and marble. Description: The choice of a particular type of stone for a building depended primarily on availability of a type stone. Consequently, there are areas in Greece that are known for their quarries of a certain vein of marble, and regions that are known to have had a particularly nice variety of a stone that they quarried there and exported at great expense to other regions to be used for a special building project.
- black: Paus. 5.11.10, Paus. 10.36.3, 5
- conglomerate: Paus. 5.10.2, Paus. 6.19.1
- Egyptian: Paus. 1.18.6
- mussel-stone, found only at Megara: Paus. 1.44.6
- Libyan: Paus. 1.18.9
- Thasian: Paus. 1.18.6
- musical stone on which Apollo laid down his lyre: Paus. 1.42.2
- pyramidal stone named Apollo Carinus: Paus. 1.44.2
- stone called Chastener with which Athena stunned Herakles: Paus. 9.11.2, 7
- stone wrapt in swaddling-clothes, given to Cronus to swallow instead of Zeus: Paus. 8.8.2, Paus. 8.36.3, Paus. 9.2.7, Paus. 9.41.6, Paus. 10.24.6, Apollod. 1.1.7
- stone of Injury and stone of Ruthlessness at Areopagus: Paus. 1.28.5
- stone on which Manto sat: Paus. 9.10.3
- stone on which Orestes was purified and healed: Paus. 2.31.4, Paus. 3.22.1
- stone on which Silenus sat: Paus. 1.23.5
- on which Telamon sat: Paus. 1.35.3
- of Sisyphus in Hades: Apollod. 1.9.2, Paus. 10.31.10
- of Ascalaphus in Hades: Apollod. 1.5.3, Apollod. 2.5.12
- stone of Tantalus: Paus. 10.31.12
- stones turned into men and women by Deucalion and Pyrrha: Apollod. 1.7.2
- Alcmena turned to: Paus. 9.16.7
- Iodama turned to: Paus. 9.34.2
- Niobe turned to: Paus. 1.21.3, Apollod. 3.5.6
- persons who see the Gorgons are turned to: Apollod. 2.4.2, Apollod. 2.4.3
- fox and dog turned to: Paus. 9.19.1
- vixen and dog turned to: Apollod. 2.4.7
- serpent at Aulis turned to: Apollod. E.3.13
- ship of the Phaeacians turned by Poseidon to: Apollod. E.7.25
- stone that could be taken out of wall of treasury: Paus. 9.37.5
- images, throne, and footstool made out of a single stone: Paus. 8.37.3
- walls of Tiryns built of huge unwrought stones: Paus. 2.25.8
- unwrought stones worshipped by Greeks of old: Paus. 7.22.5
- unwrought stones worshipped as images of Graces: Paus. 9.38.1, of Herakles: Paus. 9.24.3, and of Love: Paus. 9.27.1
- unwrought stone called Zeus Cappotas: Paus. 3.22.1
- stone anointed daily and wrapt in wool on festivals: Paus. 10.24.6
- square stones revered at Pharae: Paus. 7.22.4
- altar of unhewn stones: Paus. 7.22.5
- enclosures formed of unhewn stones: Paus. 2.34.10, Paus. 9.19.3
- sanctuary built of unhewn stones: Paus. 10.36.8
- heaps of unhewn stones: Paus. 2.36.3
- unhewn stones on or beside graves: Paus. 8.13.3, Paus. 9.18.2, Paus. 10.5.4
- rough-hewn stones form base of Amphion's tomb: Paus. 9.17.7
- stones follow Amphion's lyre: Apollod. 3.5.5
