peripteros

The peripteros can be a portico, a kiosk or a chapel.

It was an Ionic order peripteros temple from the first century BC.

It is a Corinthian hexastyle peripteros.

In the 6th century BC, Ionian Samos developed the double-colonnaded dipteros as an alternative to the single peripteros.

Apart from this exception and some examples in the more experimental polis of Magna Graecia, the Classical Doric temple type remained the 'peripteros'.

In spite of the eight columns on its front, the temple is a pure "peripteros", its external "cella" walls align with the axes of the 2nd and 7th columns.

The church is built of Bath stone and the unique spire is made of seventeen concave sides encircled by a peripteros of Corinthian columns, making two separate sections.

This led to the development of the peripteros, with a frontal pronaos (porch), mirrored by a similar arrangement at the back of the building, the opisthodomos, which became necessary for entirely aesthetic reasons.

The temple itself, a peripteros with 48 Ionic columns, was on a high podium and entered up an imposing set of steps, in a fusion of Greek and Italic architectural ideas.

Other monumental buildings, erected under the reign of Tiberius, included the marble peripteros temple of the provincial Imperial cult, a Sebasteion, on a hill at the north-western end of the canal, a stairway combined with a theatre in front (with an orchestra where religious and other performances such as gladiator fights took place).