Circular andpolygonal plans for temples are peculiar to the Romans, and occasion a diversity of character not to be met with in those of the Greeks. Besides the two simplest forms, the monopteml and peri pteml, which have been shown above, there were other varieties and combinations. For a notice of some of them we refer to ROMILN AUCHITECTURE.
Instead of entering into formal descriptions of particular temples, we subjoin a synopsis with accompanying remarks. Some of the measurements and other particulars stated in It may not exactly accord with other accounts of the respective btntctures ; for so great is frequently the discrepancy between different authorities, whether writers or delineators and restorers, that it is impossible to obtain com plete accuracy.
The above table might be rendered more copious and greatly extended ; and it might also have been differently arranged in several ways, each of which would have had something to recommend it, according to the purpose for which it may happen to be consulted. Chronological order, for instance, if the respective dates could be ascertained with tolerable accuracy. may be considered preferable by
some persons ; or the buildings might have been classified according to the number of columns in front, and as being in antis, prostyle, ped pieral, &a. ; or. else according to their relative size and dimensions. In fact a separate table is required for each mode of classification and arrangement; but as that could not be done, we have adopted what we consider the most satisfactory upon the whole. We may however render it in some measure more complete by here pointing out that the denial.* examples mentioned in it are the Temple of Jupiter, Athena ; Artemis, Ephesus; Apollo, Miletus; Hera, Samoa ; Venue and Homo, Rome; and the great temple at Baalbec. As regards and relative size, the following are the largest structures, namely : By way of affording a standard of comparison, we add the tlimen aims of St. Paul's, London, and La Madeleine, at l'aris, namely : the former. 180 by 500 ; the other 188 by 323 feet.