Greek Doric Temples

This site is a guide to Doric temples. Not only does it list all the temples and their dimensional ground plan, but it also demonstrates how the temple form evolved from its earliest wooden prototype to its final peripteral colonnaded configuration. The nature of the arts was strict and unforgiving, following a set standard in its visible shape, structure and artistic concept throughout nearly all its 400 years of development. It is not surprising, then, that the temple architect was only a part of a much broader philosophical scheme governing the arts and aesthetics. The statistical results verify as to what lengths the ancient architects went in order to create the temple design and proportion, and to what standards those architects were required to conform. The results are revolutionary in outlining the direct role Pythagoras had in determining just how ridged those restraints were.