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Falkener, Edward
Ephesus and the temple of Diana — London, 1862

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SITUATION OP THE TEMPLE. -203

G. Distance of the Temple.

Another means of determining the situation of
the Temple is by distance. Vitruvius informs us
that it was 8,000 feet (a mile and a half) from the
quarries.1 Xenophon the Ephesian, that it was
seven stadia (4,200 Greek feet) from the city :~
Herodotus gives the same distance from the " old
town:"3 and Strabo says that it was between the
distance of one and two javelin-throws from the
city;4 which, as he says a javelin-throw exceeded
one stadium, would give a distance of about one
and a half to three stadia, or from 900 to 1,800
Greek feet.

There appears at first some difficulty in recon-
ciling these statements. Herodotus hereby makes
the Temple 4,200 feet distant from the old town
(in the year 562 B.C.). Xenophon the Ephesian
gives it the same distance from the city in his
time, the beginning of the fourth century after the
Christian era: while Strabo sets it down at only
900 to 1,800 feet, and Vitruvius augments it to
8,000 feet from Mount Pion, where we know the
city to have once stood.

Let us now endeavour to find out whether any
position will accord with all these particulars.

In the first place it may be observed that the ac-
companying map of the plain of Ephesus is reduced

1 Vifcr. x. G, quoted in page 22G.

2 Xen. Epli. de Amor. Anth. et Abroc. i. 2.

3 Herod, i, 2G. * Strabo, p. G41.
 
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