Pseudodipteros

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A type of the Greek temple is called pseudodipteros .

Pseudodipteros

The pseudodipteros, like the dipteros, has a pillared hall two pillar yokes deep, peristasis , and it appears to the outside like a dipteros; but the inner columnar position of the peristasis is omitted. The result was a very spacious hall which, according to Vitruvius (3, 3, 8–9), allowed a large crowd to be in the building and in the ring hall.

Vitruvius (3, 3, 8) writes the invention of the pseudodipteros to the in the 2nd century BC. Acting architect Hermogenes too. But in Messa on Lesbos and in Chryse in the Troas ( Temple of Apollo Smintheus ) there are two pseudodipteroi that could have originated at the latest during Hermogenes' lifetime, if not even older. The most famous example of the temple type, however, is the temple for Artemis Leukophryne in magnesia on the meander , which Hermogenes designed and built. The beginning of the 2nd century BC The Ionic building, which originated in BC, had 8 × 15 columns, the central front bays were extended. This reflects an echo of archaic Dipteroi , which mostly also had an enlarged central yoke. In the pronaos of this temple, too , the outer column reduction returns. Only the pillars absolutely necessary for the roofing were integrated there, every second pillar was removed. Another example of the temple type is the Hecateion in Lagina from the late 2nd century BC. BC, which was the only pseudodipteros without an opisthodom and with its 8 × 11 columns it is very squat proportions.

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