Pythis, also known as Pytheos or Pythius, was one of the most noted Greek architects of the 4th century BCE.[1] He disparaged the Doric order, according to Vitruvius (IV.3.1), for the "faults and incongruities" caused by the inconvenient placing of triglyphs,[2] and cultivated instead the Ionic order, in which he constructed the temple of Athena at Priene. The dedicatory inscription, which is in the British Museum, records that the founder was Alexander the Great. Pythis also made a great marble quadriga which surmounted the Mausoleum of Maussollos. Vitruvius (I.1.12 and VII.Introduction.12) twice mentions the lost Commentaries of Pytheos, which explicated his system of proportions at Priene.
Pythis and Satyros (sometimes spelled Satyrus) were also noted for being co-designers of the great Mausoleum of Halicarnassus on the Aegean Sea opposite Greece.
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