Abstract
There have been discussions about the ancient Greek sanctuaries before the Hellenistic periodthat they had no principle of site planning. Especially those like Olympia, Delphi, etc., whichhad long tradition in the mainland Greece in fact look like a jumble, mainly because the buildings were laid neither orthogonally nor pararelly each other, compared with Hellenistic reeularplanning. However, the present analyses of the plans would suggest us that the buildings in someof the sanctuaries were related each other through axes and the extended lines of the exterior walls. The building arrangement of this kind would have been predecessors of the Hellenistic symmetrical and axial planning of the sanctuaries.
