The technical possibilities of the western Greeks, which had progressed beyond those in the motherland, permitted many deviations. For example, innovations regarding the construction of the entablature developed in the west allowed the spanning of much wider spaces than before, leading to some very deep and broad . The often had a depth of two column distances, e.g. at Temple of Hera I, Paestum, and temples C, F and G at Selinus,Luca Giuliani: Die archaischen Metopen von Selinunt. Zabern, Mainz 1979; Dieter Mertens: Selinus I. Die Stadt und ihre Mauern. Zabern, Mainz 2003; Dieter Mertens: Städte und Bauten der Westgriechen. Von der Kolonisationszeit bis zur Krise um 400 vor Christus. Hirmer Verlag, München 2006, p. 117-124, 227–228, 231–235. classifying them as . The only played a subsidiary role, but did occur sometimes, e.g. at the temple of Poseidon in Paestum. Much more frequently, the temples included a separate room at the back end of the , entrance to which was usually forbidden, the adyton. In some cases, the was a free-standing structure within the , e.g. temple G in Selinus. If possible, columns inside the were avoided, allowing for open roof constructions of up to 13 m width.
