Hexastyle Definition

hĕksə-stīl
adjective
Having six frontal columns in the portico, as in some Greek temples.
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Origin of Hexastyle

  • Greek hexastūlos having six columns in front hexa- hexa- stūlos pillar stā- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek ἑξάστυλος (heksastulos), from ἕξ (heks) + στῦλος (stulos).

    From Wiktionary

Hexastyle Sentence Examples

  • The temple is a Doric peripteral hexastyle in antis, with 13 columns at the sides; its length is 104 ft., its breadth 452 ft., its height, to the top of the pediment, 33 ft.

  • It is a hexastyle peripteros with fourteen columns on each side, and is remarkably well-preserved, both pediments and the epistyle at the sides being still in situ.

  • It was a peripteral hexastyle, and must have had at least nineteen columns at the sides; the portion excavated shows that its total width is 744 ft., the width of the cella 382 ft., the lower diameter of the columns 64 ft.

  • In the interval are the Zeus altar; the great hexastyle Doric temple of Athena flanked by the palace on the east, by the theatre and its long terrace on the west, and by a library on the north; and a large Corinthian temple of Trajan.

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