554 PELOPONNESUS. 
CHAP. Diodorus Siculus ; who describes it as a place 
v ^ ' strongly fortified, near to the Citadel 1 . As to the 
real history of this very antient temple, the style 
and the materials of its architecture have in- 
duced some to refer its origin to the earliest 
periods of the Dorian power in Pehponnessus. 
We confess we are not quite of this opinion : 
the disproportion of the length of the pillars to 
their diameters, is with us an argument, rather 
against, than for, their high antiquity. If we 
may credit the testimony afforded by so late a 
writer as Martin Crusius*, founded probably 
upon tradition, this building was the Temple of 
Juno; and his statement agrees with Pausanias, 
who mentions a Hieron of Buncean Juno 3 , below 
the Acrocoj'mihus : but as it amounts almost to 
H certainty, that so considerable a structure 
must have been mentioned by the latter writer 
with a more distinct clue as to its situation, 
there seems to be no edifice noticed by him 
with which it more accurately corresponds, 
Temple of than with the TEMPLE OF OCTAVIA, sister of 
Octavia. 
.Augustus; unto whom the Corinthians were 
(1) Diodor. Sicul. lib. xx. p. 480- ed. fTesselitig. 
(2) Mart. Crus. Turcogracia. 
(3) Tavr* */ ro TJ Baviai*s lrTH a Hf*t /!{. Paus. Cor. C. 4. p. 121. 
ed. Kithn. 
