Dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

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II. AM.iPHIPROSTz:LE, TETRASTYLE, IV. PERIPr'ERaL, HEXAST'YLE, Of the Dorio
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The above plan is that of a Roman Periiteros:
to represent the Grecian Peripteros two columns
should be added to each side, and the length thus
gained thrown into the opisttodonmus. In this form
there were two columns between the antae terminating the projecting walls; and tb.e three intercolumniations thus formed were fenced with marble
railings (plutei, Vitruv. iv. 4), with gates in them
giving access to the prodonsss, as shown by the
lines in the figure.
This species of temple was not only more splendid than the former, but also more fully adapted for
the performance of grand religious ceremonies, as
Vitruvius (iii. 1) says that' the Amphiprostylos the continuous portico all round it would give shelhas every part which the Prostylos has, and more- ter and passage to a large number of people. Acover it has columns and a pediment in the poosticum cordingly we find that several of the most celebrated
after the same manner." This posticuns (the Greek Greek temples are of this form; such as that of
opisihodonzus) appears to have been of two kinds; Zeus Neineus between Argos and Corinth, of Coneither a mere portico attached to the back wall of the cord at Agrigentum, of Theseus at Athens, whichl
celia, or a larger space, as shown in the figure. has no pillars between the acine of the posticum.