Wonders3 - Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

Title

Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

Latitude

37.95225

Longitude

27.35383

Place

Selcuk, Turkey

Geocoding Status

The geocoder found no matches.

World_Time

Ancient

Image_Url

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Link_Url

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Artemis

Brief

Referred to as the great marble temple, or temple D, it was sponsored by the Lydian king Croesus and was designed by the Greek architect Chersiphron. It was decorated with bronze statues sculpted by the most skilled artists of their time: Pheidias, Polycl

Year_Constructed

550 B.C.

Description

On the night of 21 July 356 BC, a man named Herostratus burned the temple to ground in an attempt to immortalize his name. He did indeed. Strangely enough, Alexander the Great was born the same night. The Roman historian Plutarch later wrote that the godd

Description_2

Over the next two decades, the temple was restored and is labeled "temple E" by archeologists. And when Alexander the Great conquered Asia Minor, he helped rebuild the destroyed temple.

Tooltips

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 On the night of 21 July 356 BC, a man named Herostratus burned the temple to ground in an attempt to immortalize his name. He did indeed. Strangely enough, Alexander the Great was born the same night. The Roman historian Plutarch later wrote that the godd</td>
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 Over the next two decades, the temple was restored and is labeled "temple E" by archeologists. And when Alexander the Great conquered Asia Minor, he helped rebuild the destroyed temple.</td>
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 Wikipedia</a>
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LargeImage

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