Basic of the development of domestic architecture was the megaron house which first appeared in northern Mesopotamia around 1800 BC. This type consisted of the rectangular main room, the Megaron, with a hearth and four columns to support the roof, and an entrance porch with two wooden posts. Greek homes in the Homeric era were influence by the megaron type, and the Mycenaean Greeks use it as the basic unit of their architecture. The megaron house included several fundamentals of construction, posts, lintel beams and the frame. The primitive porch of the megaron house was the prototype of the open column portico of the classical Greek temple. During the classical period (5th and 4th centuries BC) the Greek replaced the megaron type with the courtyard plan. The rooms of Greek houses in the classical period were asymmetrically grouped around three side of a court, with along central porch, the pastas, across the width of the building on the north of the court. In contrast to the irregular...
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