In
general, the Greek methods of architecture and construction came to an inventive
standstill after the stylistic culmination under Pericles around 400 BC, as
opposed to their continued advances in other fields of thought and art. They
stuck with the post-and-lintel
system, fixed upon using primarily the Doric order for temples, and an overwhelming
attention to the exterior of their structures with much less concern given
to the interior. It may be that their attention to the orders both created
a powerful style, but restricted their development. It was here that later
civilizations succeed in using altered architectural styles to move beyond
the methods of the Classical Greeks.
