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=== Octastyle ===
[[File:The Parthenon (3472367103).jpg|thumb|The western side of the
Octastyle buildings had eight columns; they were considerably rarer than the [[hexastyle]] ones in the classical Greek architectural [[Canon (basic principle)|canon]]. The best-known octastyle buildings surviving from antiquity are the [[Parthenon]] in [[Athens]], built during the Age of Pericles (450–430 BCE), and the [[Pantheon, Rome|Pantheon]] in [[Rome]] (125 CE). The destroyed [[Temple of Divus Augustus]] in Rome, the centre of the [[Augustus|Augustan]] cult, is shown on Roman coins of the 2nd century CE as having been built in octastyle.
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