A style of architecture used on mainland Greece and in the western Mediterranean with the plainest of capitals and a simple column with no pedestal or base and a distinctive echinus and abacus. The order was distinguished by being the earliest and simplest. The fluted columns had a diameter-to-height ratio of one-to-eight and the frieze was alternating triglyphs (triple groove) and metopes (brow). It was named after the tribe of the Dorians.
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