262 the temple was damaged by an earthquake and plundered by the Goths - a group of Germanic people who likely originated in Scandinavia - Immendörfer wrote. It's questionable whether Herostratus actually burned the temple, Immendörfer wrote, noting that people may have been searching for a scapegoat, not wanting to believe that a lightning strike could have destroyed the goddess's temple.
It was set ablaze around 356 B.C., supposedly by a man named Herostratus who sought fame. A smaller temple to Artemis, a goddess associated with animals and hunting, previously existed at Ephesus, but Croesus, who had recently conquered the area, greatly enlarged it, historian Michael Immendörfer wrote in his book "Ephesians and Artemis: The Cult of the Great Goddess of Ephesus as the Epistle's Context" (Mohr Siebeck, 2017). by Croesus, a king of Lydia, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus was praised by ancient writers for its beauty. The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Turkeyīuilt around 550 B.C. It's possible that it was destroyed around this time. Ancient records show that in the fifth century A.D., Christianity was the official religion of the Roman Empire and traditional Graeco-Roman beliefs were being persecuted. It isn't clear exactly when the statue was destroyed. However, Caligula was assassinated before his orders were carried out. Caligula ordered that the statue of Zeus, and other famous statues of gods, should "be brought from Greece, in order to remove their heads and put his own in their place," wrote Suetonius, who lived around. The Roman emperor Caligula tried to steal it around A.D. Made largely of ivory, it was constructed by the sculptor Phidias, it "showed Zeus seated but almost touching the roof with his head, thus making the impression that if Zeus arose and stood erect he would unroof the temple" the ancient greek writer Strabo, who lived from around 64 B.C. (Image credit: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)īuilt around 450 B.C., the seated figure of Greece's chief Olympic deity was 40 feet (12 m).
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