Tholos Definition

thōlŏs, -lōs
tholoi
noun
A beehive-shaped stone tomb of Mycenaean Greece, roofed by corbeling and usually built into the side of a hill.
American Heritage

A dome, or domed building; a cupola.

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Other Word Forms of Tholos

Noun

Singular:
tholos
Plural:
tholoi

Origin of Tholos

  • From Ancient Greek θόλος (tholos, “dome")

    From Wiktionary

  • Greek round building with a conical roof

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Tholos Sentence Examples

  • Curtius places the original Prytaneum south of the Acropolis in the Old Agora, speaks of a second identical with the Tholos in the Cerameicus, and regards that of Pausanius as a building of Roman times (Stadtgeschichte, p. 302).

  • Wachsmuth holds the former view and regards the Tholos as merely a dining-room for the Prytaneis in the old democratic period.

  • The Tholos at Epidaurus, built by Polycleitus (c. 400 B.C.), and the Tholos at Olympia, known as the Philippeion, are the most remarkable examples, and in both cases were covered with a sloping roof and not with a dome.

  • The chief buildings are grouped together, and include temples of Asclepius and Artemis, the Tholos, and the Abaton, or portico where the patients slept.

  • The Tholos lay to the south-west of the temple of Asclepius; it must, when perfect, have been one of the most beautiful buildings in Greece; the exquisite carving of its mouldings is only equalled by that of the Erechtheum at Athens.

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