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Within the Archaic period there were some extraordinary monuments and statues, which described the year if 525 B.C. Especially the temples construction like figure 2.16 “Basilica at Paestum”. This Doric temple, a style preferred in the western Greek colonies, still has the colonnades of per style and part of the central interior colonnade. A monumental temple (about 80 x 170 feet), it has nine columns at the ends and eighteen on the side--a ratio of 1:2. It was made of local stone and stuccoed. To entail the columns have a wider or larger circumference from the floor to the top of the col