opisthodomos

/op-is-thod-uh-muhs, -mos/US // ˌɒp ɪsˈθɒd ə məs, -ˌmɒs //

视觉障碍,视觉障碍物,视觉障碍障碍,视觉障碍者

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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plural op·is·thod·o·mos·es.
- : Also called posticum. a small room in the cella of a classical temple, as for a treasury.
- : epinaos.

But, if the western room of the Periclean temple was the opisthodomos, where was the proper?
It is natural to regard this (with Lolling) as Page 11 the opisthodomos where the treasure was kept.
The most celebrated example of such ornamentation was the box of Kypselos, in the opisthodomos of the temple of Hera at Olympia.
There was in large temples a porch of approach, the pronaos, and another behind, the opisthodomos.
The temple was decastyle, dipteral, with pronaos and vestibule, but no opisthodomos.