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It is said that Greek temples were designed by the persons called "arkhitekton" on the basis of rules of proportion. But recent investigations suggest that the proportions of external forms of Doric temples change definitely from one period or place to another. This fact makes it difficult to decide what kind of rules the "arkhitekton" used to plan these forms. In this paper, a statistical analysis is made on the proportions which define facades of Doric temples. It becomes clear that, only in mainland Greece during the archaic and classical periods, the proportions particularly of column height to stylobate width and entablature height to column height alt highly closely correlated to time. This result implies that the "arkhitektons" involved in planning Doric temples in mainland Greece consciously realized these correlations by following the consistent change with time previously realized. Therefore, it is necessary to consider that their major aim was to realize further systematic change with time in the proportions of external forms, rather than to realize a satisfying appearance within the limits of rules of proportion
