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Are there any visual representations of ancient Greek architecture? What form do they take and why?

I know that buildings that exist today are visual representations, but has ancient Greek architecture been on pottery, art, or text? In other words, how do we know what ancient Greek architecture looked like? Websites would be great to use as sources

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1. We know Greek architecture because some of it is still around like in Athens, Greece on the acropolis. Also near Olympus where the games used to take place. Also there is some text in which people describe the buildings but i can't remember specific names.
2. the actual buildings (or some of them) still exist--check out the Acropolis in Athens as the primary representative. I would presume archeology has found more humble dwellings. I wouldn't trust the art, esp pottery, to be 100% accurate, since they seemed to have had a skewed perspective in 2D art. Try looking at original sources (yes, I am suggesting books--oh, the horror!) that talk about ancient Greek (Athens, Sparta, etc--all the little city states were different, esp Sparta) or check out the references given by more contemporary authors.
3. my guess would be to say that if you travel around the mediterranian,particularly western Turkey,south France,etc. and go to out of the way places like small villages,etc. many ancient structures still exist even if people partly biult over them.i'm sure you'd find pottery an such,the locals might be helpful if your sincerly curious.