Tarchiesius
an architectural writer, whom Vitruvius mentions as one of those who maintained that the proportions of the Doric order were unsuitable to temples. He attributes the same opinion to Pytheus and Hermogenes. (Vitr. 4.3.1).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.