Footnotes   ¹ The remains of the village of Nichoria are located on the southwestern Peloponnesos.  Unlike Eleusis, it was not constructed over the ruins of a Mycenaean settlement.  The archaeological evidence gathered from this village and from contemporary sites throughout the Greek World, however, does suggest the persistence of the Mycenaean megaron-shaped architectural style.

² On the later temples of the Greek Doric order, this porch evolves into the standard pronaosóthe space for the approach to the naosóbut the practice of laity regularly entering the temple-proper is then abandoned.

³ The latter is emphasized by the Ionic order in an attempt to achieve continuity with the surrounding landscape.

⁴ The Lionís Gate (fig. 7), while achieving a similar confrontational effect through its leonid sculpture, does so for a different end.  Its goal as secular architecture is not to be an emblem of the deity, but of Mycenae.  The gate stands at the entrance to the city and confronts those who enter with an expression of civil and militant might and dominance and serves as a warning to the unscrupulous.

⁵ There is no archaeological evidence for eastern pediment having held narrative figures, though many reconstructions perhaps erroneously conjecture their existence.  If the eastern pediment held no narrative figures, it did not seek to encourage a processional effect like that of the western pediment.

⁶ As an exception here to the confrontational effect, the figures immediately next to the chariot face inwards.