A circular temple or treasury built by Theodorus of Phocaea which established the pattern of circular temples. An early example of a Doric exterior with a Corinthian interior. The exterior and interior had 20 and 10 columns respectively. Location Delphi(Greece)38.48241°N 22.50145°E...
Doric hexastyle building with 11 columns on the sides, architect: Theodotus. It had pedimental sculpture by Timotheos, including acroteria in the form of small statues. The expense accounts for the construction of this temple have survived.(Picture: The ruins of the temple’s foundations are in the foreground. The columns are part of the Stoa of...
A circular temple or treasury, surrounded by twenty six columns of the Doric Order and having 14 internal Corinthian columns. Location Epidauros(Greece)37.59835°N 23.07398°E...
Ionic tholos, with 18 external Ionic columns and 9 internal Corinthian columns, architect: Leochares It was built as a memorial to Philip II of Macedon and his family. Location Olympia(Greece)37.63863°N 21.62916°E...
Doric peripteral hexastyle building with 13 columns on the sides. With other temple buildings inside the sanctuary at Delos. Its completion was delayed. The whole site is in a ruinous state and little of the temple remains except the outer part of the crepidoma. Location Delos(Greece)37.40058°N 25.26708°E...
Doric peripteral hexastyle building with 17 columns down each side and an additional row of columns at the eastern end. The columns at the sides are very close together. Location Syracuse(Italy)37.06394°N 15.29297°E...
A huge Corinthian temple, architect: Cossutius. Built as a gift to Athens by Antiochus Epiphanes and constructed in 3 stages. It was dipteral octastyle and was long for its width in the style off the much earlier Archaic period. It had 20 columns on each side and a triple row at the porticos, 104...
One of a group of Doric temples on the Acropolis or “western group” at Selinunte. (distant view) It has similarities to the Temple of Apollo at Syracuse. It is a peripteral hexastyle temple with 17 columns at the sides and an additional row of columns at the eastern end. Like other temples at this...
A small Ionic temple, architect: Callicrates, beside the Ilissus River which ran through Athens. It was amphi-prostyle tetrastyle. It differed from the small temples and treasuries by builders from Asia Minor in having a frieze around the entablature. Location Athens(Greece)37.96835°N 23.73305°E...
One of the earliest Doric temples to have survived substantially intact. Also known as “the Basilica”, it is an unusual building with 9 columns across the front, 18 on each side and a row of columns along the centre of the naos; peripteral enneastyle in plan. Its columns have very marked entasis (cigar-shaped) and...
