In ancient Greek architecture, a propylon is a monumental gateway, also referred to as a propylaeum, and often given in the plural as propyla or propylaea. It serves as a partition, separating the sec
A 19th-century drawing of what the Propylaea in Athens might have looked like when intact
Ancient Greek architecture came from the Greeks, or Hellenes, whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and in colonies in Anatolia and Italy for a period fr
Propylon
…In ancient Greek architecture, a propylon ( or ; Ancient Greek πρόπυλον) is a monumental gateway, also referred to as a propylaeum (, a Latinized form of προπύλαιον), and often given…