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Word History and Origins
Origin of opisthodomos1
1690–1700; < Greek opisthódomos, equivalent to opistho- opistho- + dómos house
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Example Sentences
But, if the western room of the Periclean temple was the opisthodomos, where was the proper?
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It is natural to regard this (with Lolling) as Page 11 the opisthodomos where the treasure was kept.
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The most celebrated example of such ornamentation was the box of Kypselos, in the opisthodomos of the temple of Hera at Olympia.
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There was in large temples a porch of approach, the pronaos, and another behind, the opisthodomos.
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The temple was decastyle, dipteral, with pronaos and vestibule, but no opisthodomos.
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