Famous Goddess Temple: World's Wonder

A famous temple was built in olden times and became one of the world's wonder. This is the temple of Artemis also known less precisely as temple of Diana. This same with other world's wonder this was created for the purpose of their goddess but as centuries passed it became the world's wonder.



The Temple of Artemis was a Greek temple dedicated to a goddess Greeks identified as Artemis that was completed, its most famous phase,around 550 BC at Ephesus (in present day Turkey ). Though the monument was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient world, only foundations and sculptural fragments of the temple remain. There was previous temples on its site, where evidence of a a sanctuary dates as early as the Bronze Age. The whole temple was made of marble except for the roof.

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Artemis was a Greek Goddess, the virginal huntress and twin of Apollo, who supplanted the Titan Selene as goddess of the Moon. Of the Olympian goddesses who inherited aspects of the Great Goddess of Crete. Athena was more honored than Artemis at Athens. At Ephesus, a goddess whom the Greeks associated with Artemis was passionately venerated in an archaic, certainly pre-Hellenic that was carved of wood and kept decorated with jewelry.

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The temple soon attracted merchants, kings, and sightseers, many of them donated jewelry and other treasures to Artemis and her temple. Its splendor also attracted many worshipers and pilgrims, strengthening the cult of Artemis.

On July 21,356 BC, the nigh Alexander the Great was born, legend has it that a psychopathic arsonist intent on immorality set fire to the temple. Plutarch remarked that Artemis was too preoccupied with Alexander's delivery to save her burning temple.

Many more things to describe about this temple but to see its beauty is to visit its site. This is just another wonder made with hands but now became one of the World's Wonder.





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