Octostyle

The western side of the Parthenon.

Octostyle facade of the Pantheon

In classical architecture, Octostyle refers to a colonnaded portico of eight columns at the front of a peristyle building, usually a temple, or a building incorporating an octostyle colonnade. Octostyle buildings are rarer than Hexastyle in the classical Greek architectural canon. The best-known octostyle buildings surviving from antiquity are the Parthenon in Athens built in the Age of Pericles (450–430 B.C), and the Pantheon in Rome (125 B.C).

See also

• Decastyle
• Hexastyle
• Hypostyle
• Peristyle
• Portico
• Tetrastyle