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...
The Temple of Olympian Zeus
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...
Selinunte Temple “C”
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...
Temple on the Ilisos
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...
Temple of Hera I
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...
Temple of Hephaestos
Also known as the Theseion, a Doric peripteral hexastyle building with 13 columns at each side. It is well preserved externally, having been modified at the eastern end to serve as an Orthodox church. It has internal friezes over the porches at either end and has retained much of the original marble coffering over...
Temple of Apollo Epicurius(Bassae)
The architect, Ictinus, introduced the use of all three orders within a single building and orientated the building north south instead of east west. While the ends appear a regular hexastyle temple, it is very long for its width, about 2.3:1 The interior had many unusual features including Ionic capitals of unique design, a...
The Great Temple of Apollo(Selinunte)
Doric peripteral octastyle temple with 18 columns at the sides, in the eastern group at Selinunte, with Temples “E” and “F”. It is the largest temple at this site and was never completed. It is now in a state of total ruin. An ambitious building of distinctive plan, having a stylobate rising in two...
Temple of Athena(Paestum)
Also called the Temple of Demeter, a Doric peripteral hexastyle building with thirteen columns at the side, having proportions that were to be established as the Doric ideal in such buildings as the Temple of Poseidon at Sunion. The columns have pronounced entasis and the capitals are large and wide. This temple had a...
Temple of the Olympian Zeus(Akragas)
Doric pseudoperipteral building with seven attached columns (height: approx. 17 metres)(56 ft) across the front with Atlantes (height: 6 metres/20 feet) between them. The building’s coarse exterior stone was coated with marble stucco. Location Agrigento(Italy)37.29082°N 13.58441°E...