Falkener, Edward: Ephesus and the temple of Diana (London, 1862)

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SITUATION OF THE TEMPLE.

T is wonderful that buildings, which from their

magnitude and grandeur were once considered
as miracles, should not only have passed away, but
have left even their very site unknown. Although
we are in possession of a number of particulars
respecting the position of this temple, no one has
been able, to the present hour, to fix upon its site
with certainty, or even with probability. At the
same time it must be allowed, that although some
of these particulars are contradictory, travellers
have not taken sufficient pains, either to collect
these particulars, or to endeavour to reconcile
them.

1. In the first place, we know it was outside
the city.

This appears from the story of Pindarus, given
us by Herodotus j1 from Strabo ;2 and from the life
of Heraclitus the Ephesian,3 in which he is one day
represented as playing with some children in the
road leading to the Temple of Diana.

1 Herod, i. 26. See Appendix, Hibt. Events, 562 B.C.

2 Strabo, p. G41. 8 Diog. Laert. ix. 1.