Amphiprostylos

Amphiprostylos

An amphiprostylos ( Greek , plural amphiprostyloi ) is one of the plan forms of the Greek temple .

The amphiprostylos, a further development of the prostylus , consists of the cella and pillars on the front and back of the temple (cf. Vitruvius III 2, 4). The cella can have antennas , pronaos and opisthodom can be formed. Depending on this, one speaks of amphiprostyle temple or amphiprostyle double temple.

Well-known examples of the amphiprostylos are the temple on Ilissos in Athens, the Athena Nike temple on the Acropolis in Athens , the Athena temple of Lindos and the Temple of Apollo III on Delos .

literature

• Gottfried Gruben : The temples of the Greeks . Hirmer, Munich 2001 (5th edition), ISBN 3-7774-8460-1
• Heiner Knell : Architecture of the Greeks: Basic features . Knowledge Buchges., Darmstadt 1988, ISBN 3-534-80028-1
• Wolfgang Müller-Wiener , Greek civil engineering in antiquity . CH Beck, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-406-32993-4

Web links

Wiktionary: Amphiprostylos  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Studies on the hexastyle prostylos of archaic and classical times - PhD thesis by Helge Olaf Svenshon, TU Darmstadt, Department of Architecture, 2001