Peripter

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Peripter, a special type of antique temples, which is surrounded on all four sides with a portico with column. It's very frequent in Corynthian and Doric order (Partenon and Tezeion in Athens; Apollo's temple in Selinunt on Sycilly: Temple of Zeus in Olympia etc.)


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