a) This style was seldom used in Greek temples. The top of the pillar was very elaborate, decorated with acanthus leaves. (newest form of pillar)
b) This style did not arrive fully until the middle
c) The oldest example of this form is in The Temple of Apollo at Bassae (c.420 B.C.). the chief example is the circular structure at Athens known as the choragic monument of Lysicrates ( 335 B.C.). The temple of Zeus at Athens (started in the 2d cent. B.C. and completed by Emperor Hadrian in the 2d cent. A.D.) was perhaps the most notable of the Corinthian temples.
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