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

212 TEMPLE OF DIANA.

If we regard this Otrita to be identical, as lias been
supposed, with the Orithya mentioned by Justimis,
one of her sisters, Menalippe, married Hercules;
and another, Hippolyte, married Theseus ;l conse-
quently the date of the first temple would be earlier
than 1235 B.C. And this would be confirmed by
Pindar, as quoted by Pausanias, Avho says :—" This
temple was built by the Amazons, when they
warred on the Athenians and Theseus."2 But as
Marpesia, the mother of Orithya, gave out that
she and her sister Lampeto were the daughters of
Mars, it is not probable that her daughter Orithya
would declare herself to be the wife of Mars; but
rather, that the mother of Marpesia and Lampeto
was the Otrita, spoken of by Hyginus as the wife of
Mars and Queen of the Amazons. This supposition
would date the building of the first Temple of
Diana two generations earlier, or about the year
1300 B.C.

On the Amazons being attacked by Hercules,
who was sent by Burystheus to obtain the belt of
Antiope,3 they fled for refuge to this temple;4
and Hercules not only respected the asylum, but

1 Justimis, ii. 4. 2 Paus. vii. 2.

3 Hercules is generally said to have been sent to take the belt
of Hippolyte; Justinus, (ii. 4,) states the tradition differently : he
says, Hercules was commanded to take the belt of the queen of the
Amazons ; and the queen at this period was Antiope. The account
in Pausanias, however, (i. 41) differs from this historian.

4 Eustathius, Com. Dion. Geoff, p. 147. (Oxon, 1710.)