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Doric

The architectural order developed and regularly employed in the regions speaking a Dorian dialect of Greek. The Doric capital, including the abacus, echinus, necking, and a short section of the upper part of the shaft as far down as the necking-ring, is almost always monolithic, that is, carved of a single block.

Description: The Doric dialect was used in Doris, Argos, Laconia, Messenia, Crete, Sicily, Lower Italy (Magna Graecia), and the southern part of Asiatic Hellas. Athens recognizes two types: the severer Doric (spoken in Laconia, Crete, Cyrene, and Magna Graecia); and the milder Doric, influenced by Aeolic or Ionic usage (spoken in Argolis, Messenia, Megara, northern Greece, Asia Minor, and Sicily).



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    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2.27.3
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2.29.5
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2.37.3
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 3.17.2
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 3.22.1
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 4.27.11
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 4.34.8
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 5.10.2
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 5.15.12
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 5.16.1
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 5.20.9
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 6.19.2
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 6.24.2
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8.45.5
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9.12.5
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9.22.3
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