A temple will be peripteral that has six columns in front and six in the rear, with eleven on each side including the corner columns.
But if such a temple is to be constructed in peripteral form, let two steps and then the stylobate be constructed below.
In Greece proper there is no known instance of a peripteral Ionic temple, but the order was sometimes used for small prostyle and amphiprostyle buildings, such as the Temple of Wingless Victory in Athens (Fig.
The Ionic order was much used in the Greek cities of Asia Minor for peripteral temples.
The peripteral arrangement, which is a constant principle in Greek architecture, is no more than a rare accident in that of Egypt.
The peripteral temple of Elephantiné and even the temple of Khons may be given as instances of this; in them there is much with which the most exclusive philo-Greek can sympathize.
The following facts are sufficient to prove that it was the small size of these peripteral temples that first suggested the external situation of their colonnades.
We know how in the great peripteral buildings of Greece and Italy, the pronaos prefaced the entrance to the cella with a double and sometimes a triple row of columns.
It is of the kind known as Doric peripteral hexastyle; that is to say, it is of the Doric order, surrounded by a colonnade, which has six columns at the ends and thirteen columns at the sides.
The form of the building is that known as amphiprostyle peripteral hexastyle.
The temple is of the kind called peripteral hexastyle.
The Parthenon was of the Doric order of architecture, and was of the form termed peripteral octastyle; that is to say, it was surrounded by a colonnade, which had eight columns at each end.
The peripteral plan, indeed, occurs in several small cellas of the ancient kingdom, but it was exceptional, and did not arrive at any systematic development.
But they did not hesitate to reintroduce into the land the exterior splendor of the peripteral plan, by that time so fully developed in Greece.
The oldest peripteral temples known are not situated in Greece proper, but in the early colonies upon the coasts of Magna Graecia and Sicily.
The peripteral columns of the Doric style worthily express the peculiar character of the Dorians by their simple dignity.
Upon the corners of the peripteral building inclined piers were often retained, as a reminiscence of the original enclosure wall as well as for greater constructional security.
These peripteral temples, built about the middle of the sixth century B.
All these are within the external walls of the courts, but the peripteral portico, embracing the temple walls, like those of Greece, is also to be found in a few rare instances (Fig.
They also used it within their buildings at the top of the walls behind their colonnades, as, for instance, in the peripteraltemple at Elephantiné (Fig.
This became a true continuous stylobate, carrying piers, in peripteral temples like that at Elephantiné (Fig.
These columns were necessary in order to complete a peripteral arrangement, similar to that which exists in the hypæthral temples at Philæ and in Nubia.
It occurs in the peripteral temple at Elephantiné, but that is quite an exception (Fig.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peripteral" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
