Falkener, Edward: Ephesus and the temple of Diana (London, 1862)

THE OELEBBATED TEMPLE. 269

seems strange that, after defining the hypsethral
temple to be decastyle, he should refer his readers
to an octastyle example. But, however vague the
description may be, it is the only detailed description
of such temples, and we must therefore endeavour
to discover Yitruvius' meaning. He begins by de-
scribing the most simple form of temples, and he
ends with temples of the most complex character.
He begins with temples in antis, then he describes
the prostyle, the amphiprostyle, the peripteral, the
pseudo-dipteral, the dipteral, gradually increasing in
magnificence, till he comes to the grandest of all,
the hypasthral temple. We must bear in mind that
Vitruvius' work, " De Architectural' was illustrated
originally with diagrams. These diagrams he would
naturally refer to in the text; and thus having
drawn out his ideal representations of the several
classes of temples, his descriptions having reference
to these diagrams, would appear more arbitrary
than we think consistent. No doubt his diagram of
the peripteral temple had six columns in front, and
eleven at the sides ; and so, therefore, he described
it, although temples with a greater number of
columns, but with this arrangement, would still be
peripteral: bis diagram of the pseudo-dipteral had
eight columns in front, and fifteen at the sides,

peristyliorum : medium autem sub divo est sine tecto, aditusqne
valvarum ex utraque parte in pronao, et postico. Hujus autem
exemplar Ronife non est, sed Athenis octastylos, et iu Templo Jovis
Olympii.—(Vitr. iii. 1.)