Why did Greco-Roman temple architecture change so drastically?
Something I’ve always found interesting…
So, in ancient times, Greco-Roman architecture featured columns up front with a flat triangular pediment on top (the Parthenon). Over time in what was basically a hybrid, the columns stayed AND huge domes got added like on the Pantheon.
Then after the fall of the West, this evolved into ditching the columns and just becoming obsessed with the wide, bulky curves and domes, producing the Hagia Sophia (a template later copy/pasted onto Ottoman mosque design just w/ pointy minarets).
What drove this change in style, given it all happened within essentially the Greco-Roman world?
u/ActuatorOutside5256 — 13 days ago