Corinthian buildings in Greece are:—Monument of Lysicrates, the Tower of Winds, and Jupiter Olympius, all in Athens.
During the 5th century B.C. the Doric order was extensively used in the Greek colonies of Sicily. At Acragas or Agrigentum the remains of 6 fine hexastyle and peripteral Doric Temples are found, of which the Temple of Zeus B.C. 450 is the largest, being 354 by 173 feet. In this temple were found the Telemones or Atlantes, male figures 25 feet in height, with their arms raised, probably supporting the roof of the temple.
At Selinus there are six large Doric temples, five being hexastyle and peripteral, the other octastyle and pseudo-dipteral, 372 by 175 feet. This temple has columns 57 feet in height with an entablature of 19 feet. At Egesta, there is a hexastyle, peripteral, Doric temple with the columns not fluted, and at Pæstum in Southern Italy there are two Doric temples, the temple of Neptune, and the temple of Vesta, of the usual hexastyle and peripteral form, but the Basilica is pseudo-dipteral and is remarkable for its two porticos of nine columns each. All these buildings in Sicily and Pæstum date between B.C. 500 and 430.
Classification of Classic Temples:—
| 1st. | The arrangements of the columns and walls |
| (a) When the side walls have no colonnade | Apteral |
| (b) When there is a colonnade standing apart from the side walls | Peripteral |
| (c) When the colonnade is attached to the side of the side walls | Pseudo-peripteral |
| (d) When there is a double colonnade standing from the wall | Dipteral |
| 2nd. | The relation of the ends of the temple |
| (a) When the columns do not project beyond the walls | In Antis |
| (b) When a portico stood in front of the temple | Prostyle |
| (c) When there was a portico at each end | Amphi-prostyle |
| (d) If the portico was one column in depth | Mono-prostyle |
| (e) If the portico was two columns in depth | Di-prostyle |
| 3rd. | The number of columns in the portico |
| (a) If of 2 columns | Distyle |
| (b) If of 4 columns | Tetrastyle |
| (c) If of 6 columns | Hexastyle |
| (d) If of 8 columns | Octastyle |
| 4th. | The Intercolumniation |
| (a) If 1½ diameters apart | Pycnostyle |
| (b) If 2 diameters apart | Systyle |
| (c) If 2¼ diameters apart | Eustyle |
| (d) If 3 diameters apart | Diastyle |
| (e) If 4 diameters apart | Ærostyle |
GREEK ORNAMENT. [Plate 5.]
