TEMPLE OF ARTEMIS • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Temple of Artemis

... elegant form, midway between the Ionic and Corinthian types. This temple belongs to the list of colossal edifices already referred to; its dimensions were 366 by 163 feet, making it the largest of them all. The famous Artemisium (temple of Artemis or Diana) measured 342 by 163 feet. Several of the columns of the latter were enriched with sculptured figures encircling the lower drums of the colossal shafts. The most lavish expenditure was bestowed upon small structures, shrines, and sarcophagi. The graceful monument ...

— A Text-Book of the History of Architecture - Seventh Edition, revised • Alfred D. F. Hamlin