Herostratus burns the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
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The Artemision standing in 356 BCE was destroyed by arson. The ancient tradition names the arsonist Herostratus and attributes to him the motive of wanting his name remembered, which is why the name survives at all. The temple was rebuilt afterwards on a still larger scale.
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- The Artemision standing in 356 BCE was destroyed by arson. The ancient tradition names the arsonist Herostratus and attributes to him the motive of wanting his name remembered, which is why the name survives at all. The temple was rebuilt afterwards on a still larger scale.
- Knowledge
- Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (the Artemision)
- Herostratus burns the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
- Connections
- Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (the Artemision)
- The canon of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
- Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
- Statue of Zeus at Olympia
- Antipater of Sidon writes the earliest surviving list of seven wonders
- Herostratus burns the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
- The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus is pulled down
- Mausoleum sculpture is removed to the British Museum
- Evidence
- The fullest ancient description of the wonders as a set, written centuries after most had been ruined, and by a later Paradoxographer rather than the 3rd-century BCE engineer Philo Mechanicus.
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