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APTERAL (from the Gr. eorrepos, wingl...

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 234 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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APTERAL (from the Gr. eorrepos, wingless, a-, privative and Irmpov, a wing) , an architectural
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term applied to amphiprostyle temples which have no columns on the sides; in the Ionic temple on the Acropolis at Athens known as
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Nike Apteros, the adjective is used, not as applying to the goddess of victory but to the absence of any peristyle on the sides .

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