Hi lets talk about a very wonderful place 

  A place that is described in Antipater of Sidon 's list of the world's Seven Wonders and this is.....TEMPLE OF ARTEMIS

The Temple of Artemis (artemisia) was located near the ancient city of Ephesus, about 75 kilometers (47 mi) south of the modern port city of  Izmir , in Turkey. Today the site lies on the edge of the modern town of  Selçuk

The sacred site ( temenos ) at Ephesus was far older than the  Artemision itself. Pausanias was certain that it antedated the Ionic immigration by many years, being older even than the oracular shrine of Apollo at Didyma . He said that the pre-Ionic inhabitants of the city were Leleges and Lydians . Callimachus , in his Hymn to Artemis attributed the earliest temenos at Ephesus to the Amazons , legendary warrior-women whose religious practice he already imagined centered upon an image ( bretas ) of Artemis, their matron goddess. Pausanias believed that the temple pre-dated the Amazons                        

Pausanias's estimate of the site's antiquity seems well-founded. Before World War I, site excavations by  David George Hogarth seemed to identify three successful temple buildings. Re-excavations in 1987–1988 and re-appraisal of Hogarth's account confirmed that the site was occupied as early as the Bronze Age , with a sequence of pottery finds that extend forward to Middle Geometric times , when a peripteral temple with a The The floor of hard-packed clay was constructed in the second half of the 8th century BC.  The peripteral temple at Ephesus offers the earliest example of a peripteral type on the coast of Asia Minor, and perhaps the earliest Greek temple surrounded by colonnades anywhere 

In the 7th century BC, a flood destroyed the temple, depositing over half a meter of sand and flotsam over the original clay floor. Among the flood debris were the remains of a carved  ivory  plaque of a  griffin  and the  Tree of Life , apparently North Syrian, and some drilled tear-shaped  amber  drops of elliptical cross-section. These probably once dressed a wooden effigy ( xoanon ) of the Lady of Ephesus, which must have been destroyed or recovered from the flood. Bammer notes that though the site was prone to flooding, and raised by silt deposits about two meters between the 8th and 6th centuries, and a further 2.4 m between the sixth and the fourth, its continued use "indicates that maintaining the identity of the actual location played an important role in the sacred organization"

Second phase

The new temple was sponsored at least in part by  Croesus ,  who founded  Lydia 's empire and was overlord of Ephesus.  It was designed and constructed from around 550 BC by the Cretan  architect Chersiphron and his son Metagenes . It was 115 m (377 ft) long and 46 m (151 ft) wide, supposedly the first Greek temple built of marble. Its peripteral columns stood some 13 m (40 ft) high, in double rows that formed a wide ceremonial passage around the cella that housed the goddess's cult image. Thirty-six of these columns were, according to Pliny the Elder , decorated by carvings in relief. A new ebony or blackened grapewood cult statue was sculpted by Endoios,  and a naiskos to house it was erected east of the open-air altar

Third phase

Alexander offered to pay for the temple's rebuilding; The Ephesians tactfully refused, saying "it would be improper for one god to build a temple for another",  and eventually rebuilt it after his death, at their own expense. Work started in 323 BC and continued for many years. The third temple was larger than the second; 137 m (450 ft) long by 69 m (225 ft) wide and 18 m (60 ft) high, with more than 127 columns.  Athenagoras of Athens  names  Endoeus , a pupil of  Daedalus , as sculptor of Artemis' main cult image

Pausanias  (c. 2nd century AD) reports another image and altar in the temple, dedicated to Artemis  Protothronia  (Artemis "of the first seat") and a gallery of images above this altar, including an ancient figure of  Nyx  (the primordial goddess of Night) by the sculptor  Rhoecus  (6th century BC). Pliny describes images of Amazons, the legendary founders of Ephesus and Ephesian Artemis' original protectors, carved by  Scopas . Literary sources describe the temple's adornment by paintings, columns gilded with gold and silver, and religious works of renowned Greek sculptors  Polyclitus ,  Pheidias ,  Cresilas , and  Phradmon

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