Usage examples (13)

• Did a vestibule exist at the front only, the temple would be called prostyle; as it is, it is amphiprostyle.
• If the portico were formed merely by a row of columns without the aid of walls it was called a prostyle temple; if the same construction were also placed at the rear of...
• Athens, Philo set up columns in front before the temple, and made it prostyle.
• The amphiprostyle is in all other respects like the prostyle, but has besides, in the rear, the same arrangement of columns and pediment.