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Definition of Megaron
1. Noun. The rectangular great hall in a Mycenaean building, usually supported with pillars. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Megaron
1. the great central hall of an ancient Greek house [n -ARA]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Megaron
Literary usage of Megaron
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Homeric Palace by Norman Morrison Isham (1898)
"Perhaps, in the smaller castles, it was simply of beaten clay, like that of the
megaron of Odysseus. The Great Hall or megaron Proper. ..."
2. Tiryns: The Prehistoric Palace of the Kings of Tiryns, the Results of the by Heinrich Schliemann, Felix Adler, Wilhelm Dörpfeld (1885)
"The date of this reconstruction cannot be determined, but was certainly not till
after the complete destruction of the older megaron. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"It is considered as equivalent to the Andron ; the women's apartment being
naturally smaller and more retired, while the megaron served for the assembly of ..."
4. The Rise of the Greek Epic: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at Harvard by Gilbert Murray (1907)
"There seem to have been two types of house in the Aegean in early times, the
Cretan or Southern palace and the Hellenic or Northern one- roomed ' megaron '. ..."
5. Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos by British School at Athens, Thomas Dinham Atkinson (1904)
"Both the megaron and the pottery found in it were the creation of strangers, and
it is as easy to account for the coincidence of a mainland type of megaron ..."
6. Korakou: A Prehistoric Settlement Near Corinth by Carl William Blegen (1921)
"This is, however, not the only difficulty encountered by the theory that a Greek
temple of the period mentioned stood at the Mycenaean level in the megaron. ..."
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