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===Octastyle===
[[File:Parthenon-AcropolisKien oftruc Athenssymbol.jpgJPG|thumb|right|The western side of the [[octastyle]] [[Parthenon]] in Athens]]
[[Octastyle]] buildings had eight columns; they were considerably rarer than the [[hexastyle]] ones in the classical Greek architectural [[Aesthetic canon|canon]]. The best-known octastyle buildings surviving from antiquity are the [[Parthenon]] in [[Athens]], built during the Age of Pericles (450&ndash;430&nbsp;BCE), and the [[Pantheon, Rome|Pantheon]] in [[Rome]] (125&nbsp;CE). The destroyed [[Temple of Divus Augustus]] in Rome, the centre of the [[Augustus|Augustan]] cult, is shown on Roman coins of the 2nd&nbsp;century&nbsp;CE as having been built in octastyle.