Dyer, Thomas Henry: Ancient Athens: Its history, topography, and remains (London, 1873)

TEMPLE OF ZEUS OLYMPIUS.

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Olympium. The cella of the temple of Zeus at Agrigentum was only a
little smaller than the whole of the Athenian temple; but it was not
peripteral, the columns being engaged, or encased in the wall; and it was
partially ruined by the Carthaginians before it had been completed.1

The Olympium at Athens was dipteros decastylos; that is, had a
triple range of ten columns at each front, and a double range of twenty
at the sides, making 116 in all; the side columns at each end were
parallel with those of the fronts, and thus twenty-four in number, being

PLAN OF TEMPLE OF ZEUS OLYMPUS.

counted twice over. Besides these, there were four columns between the
antse at each front, making the total number 124.2 Fifteen columns, all
on the south side, are all that now remain of this magnificent struc-
ture. Of these, thirteen in one group formed the south-east angle;
four belonging to the outer line on the south side; six to the inner or
second line; and three to the facade before the east front of the cella.

1 Diodor. Sic. xiii. 82, who gives the
dimensions as follows : ecrri 8e 6 kw exav
to peir firJKos nobas rpiaicoaiovs reaaapd-
kovtcl, to 8( ir\aTos f^Kovra, to be vyfros
Ikotov (Tkoo-i, xwP'y ro*> Kpr)rrtda>itaTos.
Here the breadth and height are evidently-
interchanged. Diodorus must mean 120
feet broad and 60 high. Modern measure-
ments give the length 344 feet, breadth
172, height of columns 52. Baedeker's

Italy, iii. p. 239.

2 Leake (i. 515) says 120. He allows
indeed only 3 columns between the ante;
but still on his own showing there must
have been 122. For a treble row of 10
columns at each front will give 60 ; and a
double row of 20 on each side 80; from
which, however, 24 columns counted twice
must be deducted, leaving 56 ; and 60 + 56
+ 6 (between antse) = 122.

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