Temple of Athena Polias in Priene and Temple of Artemis Leukophryene in Magnesia on the Meander

Both pairs of columns […], reconstructed to scale, come from temples that majorly influenced the development of the Ionic order in Asia Minor during the “Ionic Renaissance” (fourth century BC) and the Hellenistic period (third century BC). The architects of these temples, Pytheos and Hermogenes, even drew up treatises in which they presented the theories of architecture that informed their buildings. […] Looking to the Classical buildings on the Greek mainland as a model, Pytheos sought to transform the boundless Archaic variations of Ionic architecture into a strictly ordered scheme. This concept marks his plans for the Maussolleion of Halikarnassos and especially for the Temple of Athena in Priene […]. Hermogenes’ masterpiece was the Temple of Artemis Leukophryene in Magnesia on the Meander. As a pseudodipteros temple, this building had the proportions of a temple with a double colonnade but lacked the inner ring of columns, thus creating a wider portico space. An epiphany of Artemis in the late third century BC led the inhabitants of Magnesia to establish new festal games for the goddess and to remodel her sanctuary by building a new altar and temple. […] Contemporary architects were obviously deeply impressed by this temple: ideas indebted to Hermogenes reappear in the temples of Asia Minor well into the Roman Imperial period.