The amphiprostyle is in all other respects like the prostyle, but has besides, in the rear, the same arrangement of columns and pediment. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
Did a vestibule exist at the front only, the temple would be called prostyle; as it is, it is amphiprostyle. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Greek Art] Reference
In Greece proper there is no known instance of a peripteral Ionic temple, but the order was sometimes used for small prostyle and amphiprostyle buildings, such as the Temple of. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Greek Art] Reference
In the latter, excepting in the prostyle temple, the front had hardly any distinctive characteristic, in the peripteral, amphiprostyle, and other temples the back and front were alike. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
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 the building it was amphiprostyle. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
50 it is amphiprostyle. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Greek Art] Reference
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