Learning by doing. Arts&English for young students

This work is from Celia Bobo 3ºD

TEMPLE OF CONCORDIA

• AUTHOR

Ancient Greeks built this temple

• PERIOD

It was built between 440-430 a. C.

• STYLE

Its style is Greek Style: They used principally stone, they used elements such as columns…

• WHERE IS THIS BUILDING?

This building is a Greek temple of the city of Agrigento, an old Greek city called Akragas that now belongs to Italy, in the Valle dei Templi or Valley of the Temples, an archaeological site where there are many temples.

• ITS FUNCTION

Its function was, as it´s a temple, religious. Archaeologists doesn’t know yet to who was it dedicated.

Now it can be visited, so its function is cultural function.

• MATERIALS USED

Stone, wood (for the beams).

SHAPE RELATED TO

Its prism-shaped (the structure of the temple), cylinder-shaped (the columns, which are cylinders) and it´s also pyramid-shaped (Its roof, that is a pyramid)

• MY OPINION

I chose this building because I like history and I also like Greek Mythology, so I think It´s a very interesting a beautiful building. It´s old and well-balanced; and I also think it´s an elegant temple

CELIA BOBO RODRÍGUEZ-NORIEGA 3RD D