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OCR: PAGE 1 The Greek temple sought to express visually the values, beliefs, and ideals of the Greek way of life. Therefore, balance, simplicity, grace, and the heroic life well lived are to be found in its Finding its origins in early mud and brick structures, it evolved into a stone construction based on the Bustem culminating in the temple as it was known in 5th century Greece. There, the basic style of the temple, the fluted column, the pediment, colonnade with architrave and sculpted frieze would form many of the essential components of Western civilization's architecture.