it. 
320 ATHENS. 
CHAP, subsequent investigation, and by the discoveries 
* -,'- - which the excavations of future travellers may 
Reasons bring to light, were it not for the recent observa- 
Nneas- tions upon this subject by the Earl of Aberdeen ', 
added to the plan of this mighty structure as 
afforded both by Chandler* and by Stuart 3 from 
their own personal observations ; which seem 
to place the history of the building beyond a 
doubt, and prove it to have been the Temple of 
Jupiter Olympius, constructed with double rows of 
columns, ten in front, and twenty-one in flank, 
amounting in all to one hundred and twenty- 
four ; the extent of the front being one hundred 
and seventy-one feet, and the length of the flank 
more than four hundred : of which sumptuous 
and stately temple, these pillars are the majestic 
ruin. The area, or periL-olus, within which it 
stood, was four stadia in circumference. "Rome" 
says Chandler 4 , " afforded no example of this 
species of building. It was one of the four marble 
edifices which had raised to the pinnacle of 
renown the architects who planned them 5 ; men, 
(1) Introduction to fPUkins's Trans, of PUnn-ivs, p. 66. See also 
Note (l) to p. 9, of the Text of that Work. Land. 1812. 
(2) Trav. in Greece, vol.11, c. 15. p. 74. Oxf. 177G. 
(3) Antiq. of Athens, vol. III. c. 2. PI. 3. Land. 1794. 
(4) Trav. in Greece, as above cited. 
(5) Antistates, Cnlleeschros, //ntimachides, and Porinus, were the 
earlier architects employed on this fabric. 
