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The Temple of Artemis or Artemision (Greek: Ἀρτεμίσιον; Turkish: Artemis Tapınağı), also known as the Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to an ancient, localised form of the goddess Artemis (equated with the Roman goddess Diana).
21 sie 2024 · Temple of Artemis, temple at Ephesus, now in western Turkey, that was one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The great temple was built by Croesus, king of Lydia, about 550 bce and was rebuilt after being burned by a madman named Herostratus in 356 bce.
26 lip 2018 · The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus was located on the western coast of Asia Minor (modern Turkey) and built in the 6th century BCE. Such was its tremendous size, double the dimensions of other Greek temples...
29 sie 2018 · The Temple of Artemis is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Three to four times as large as the Parthenon in Athens, it was once described as the largest temple and building of antiquity and served as a place of worship to the Greek Goddess Artemis.
The Temple of Artemis at Sardis, the fourth largest Ionic temple in the world, is situated dramatically on the western slopes of the Acropolis, below the mass of the Tmolus Mountains in a broad valley opening into the ancient Pactolus River bed (Figs. 1, 2, 3). 1 As with the other two Artemisions of Asia Minor, the great Archaic/Hellenistic ...
Commissioned by the rich Lydian King Croesus in honour of the goddes, Artemis, the temple was built by the most important architects of its time and was embellished with the bronze statues made by the most famous sculptors.
4 kwi 2023 · Around 3,000 kilometers to the west of the Persian capital, on the day of Alexander’s birth, the great Temple of Artemis at Ephesus burned down. Plutarch’s ancient biography of Alexander records the pithy remark of Hegesias of Magnesia, a none-too-popular historian from the 2nd century BCE.
