The Temple of Artemis

The Temple of Artemis

Temple of Artemis 16 century, a colored drawing made from
The Temple of Artemis (Greek: Artemision; Latin: Artemisium), also known as the Temple of Diana. Temple dedicated to the goddess Artemis in Ephesus was completed 550 years before Christ. The temple was built entirely of marble. The temple is considered one of the seven wonders of the world [1] back in part two marble Today only one remains. The ancient city is located in Izmir Selcuk in Turkey.
The temple is the work of 120-year project started by the expense of Croesus king of Lydia. [2] has described the world's seven wonders of the Gleaner Sidon'lu Antipader temple.
On the road for chariots, and the walls of Babylon proudly Alpheus'daki I saw the statue of Zeus and the hanging gardens and the huge pyramids of the Sun kolosusunu and high labor and the vast tomb of Mausolus, but when I saw his house built on the clouds of Artemis lost the brightness of all the other wonders and I said, "Here! Olimpus'un outside, the sun did not look at anything larger than ever. (Antipater, Greek Anthology [IX.58])
Philon of Byzantium to the temple, he wrote:
I saw the grave of the powerful labor and Mausoleus'in ancient Babylonians. But I see the temple at Ephesus rising into the clouds, had been overshadowed all others.

Artemis, the sister of Apollo, who supplanted the Titan Selene as Goddess of the Moon
Greek virgin goddess of hunting. Ephesian Artemis is quite different. Ephesian Artemis (Efesya), a cult is believed to be an Anatolian goddess Cybele. [3]
How there came to Ephesus, Cybele the mother goddess of Anatolia, and the name of the cult of Artemis, is unclear as to how the various stages of Cybele became Artemis is considered passing.
Unlike the Greek gods and Egyptian gods, such as more body near east, where under the feet and legs, tapering, covered with a section similar to the column. The many-breasted goddess (37 units) [4] On the coins minted at Ephesus, Cybele wears a crown like the walls were a feature. On the money shot, the arms of a wand entwined serpents or of piles of Ouroboros rests. The same as in Ephesus, the goddess Cybele and Korea to serve on the megabyzae hierodüller called.
Also mentioned by Bennett [5] is probably the third century before millatan a votive inscription, associates Ephesian Artemis with Crete:
"To the Healer of diseases, to Apollo, Giver of Light to mortals, Eutyches has set up in votive offering (a statue of) the Cretan Lady of Ephesus, the Light-Bearer."
Customs of the Greeks merge, in a way they can understand all the foreign gods under some form of Olympic pantheon assimilated. Ephesus, the Ionian settlers "Lady of Ephesus" is very clear that they do to undersized özdeleştirmesinin Artemis.
History [edit]

Architecture and art [edit]

The temple is believed to occur in three phases. Before the temple is called a stage there are about 7th BC Artemisium sunaktır made century. The temple is built on the stage of B, then C, after the fire in the restorasyondur stage.
Almost all of the descriptions and art on the inside of the temple, and is based on the sayings of Plynus'un historian. Pliny the temple 115 feet long and 55 meters wide, almost entirely of marble [6] as described. The temple is 18 meters, each of which consists of 127 Ionic-styled columns.
The Temple of Artemis housed many fine artworks. Polyclitus renowned Greek sculptors, Pheidias, Cresilas, and sculptures made by Phradmon, decorated with paintings and gilded columns of gold and silver. For creating the finest sculpture artists competed with each other. The majority of these sculptures were of Amazons, said to have founded the city of Ephesus.
Pliny also working on the Mausoleum of Mausolus Scopas'ın says the temple's columns carved reliefs.
Athenagoras of Athens, as the creator of the statue of Artemis in Ephesus, the chief Endoeus Daedalus'un student 's name has.
Cult and influence [edit]

The Temple of Artemis of Ephesus was at an economically robust region, and visited by traders and travelers from all over Anatolia edilmekteydi. Shrine influenced by many beliefs and many different religions has been the symbol for a person of faith. Artemis, a large portion of Ephesians and beliefs, including Kibele have taparlardı. Artemis, Cybele, the Roman anti-Diana'dan took a very different shape. Tapani cult of Artemis attracted thousands of distant lands. All come together in this place taparlardı him.
Footnotes and references [edit]

^ (2009) Katie Hallam The Traveler's Atlas: Europe (English), 125, London: Barron's Educational Series. ISBN 0-7641-6176-8. URL Accessed on September 28, 2010. "The Temple of Artemis is a replica of the building that was one of the original Seven Wonders of the World."
^ (2009) Katie Hallam The Traveler's Atlas: Europe (English), 125, London: Barron's Educational Series. ISBN 0-7641-6176-8. URL Accessed on September 28, 2010. "It took 120 years to build."
^ The Archaic Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (The British Museum)
^ The past, but today they believed that the plural nozzles is claimed by some of them are bull testicles.
^ Florence Mary Bennett, Religious cults Associated with the Amazons: (1912): Chapter III: Ephesia Artemis (text)
^ The temple roof was wood, so fire collapsed.