The Ten Books on Architecture, 3.2.1

Vitruvius  translated by Morris Hicky Morgan

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Classification of Temples

2There are certain elementary forms on which the general aspect of a temple depends. First there is the temple in antis, or ναος ἑν παραστἁσιν as it is called in Greek; then the prostyle, amphiprostyle, peripteral, pseudodipteral, dipteral, and hypaethral. These different forms may be described as follows.

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