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Definition of Dorian order
1. Noun. The oldest and simplest of the Greek orders and the only one that normally has no base.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dorian Order
Literary usage of Dorian order
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Public Organization in Ancient Greece: A Documentary Study by Nicholas F. Jones (1987)
"... wherever retained, observed a common, "pan-Dorian" order of precedence.
If it is assumed that this order of precedence was generally known, ..."
2. A Grammar of Greek Art by Percy Gardner (1905)
"... with the triglyphs and running round the whole of the temples of Dorian order.
Sometimes, especially at the ends of temples, they were sculptured. ..."
3. Greece, Ancient and Modern: Lectures Delivered Before the Lowell Institute by Cornelius Conway Felton (1896)
"The temple," says he, " is built according to the Dorian order, and is surrounded
by columns (or a peristyle). It is constructed of the light marble which ..."
4. Plato and Platonism: A Series of Lectures by Walter Pater (1893)
"... florid, complex, excitable, but adding to the utmost degree of Ionian sensibility
an effectual desire towards the Dorian order and asepsis, ..."
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