Octostyle

Octostyle
On the reverse, is a hexastyle temple decorated with festoons, and figures on pediment and cornice; in the foreground stands the Emperor Caligula, veiled with patera in one hand, facing lleft, in the act of sacrificing on an altar, ...

Octostyle had eight columns. Octostyle buildings are rarer than Hexastyle in the classical Greek architectural canon. The best-known octostyle buildings surviving from antiquity are the Parthenon in Athens built during the Age of Pericles (450-430 B.

distyle (two), tetrastyle (four), hexastyle (six), octostyle (eight). A prostyle portico has columns standing free. A portico in antis has columns on the same plane as the front of the building.

See also: Portico, Temple, Pediment, Hexastyle, Porch