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THE EARLIER TEMPLES OF DIANA, ETC. 213
established the Temple with, rites and ceremonies.1
According to Eusebius, the Amazons3 subsequently-
burnt the Temple, and immediately afterwards
Silvius Posthumus was the third king of the
Latins.3 This must, therefore, have happened
about 1150 B.C.
On the arrival of the Ionian colony, we find
that tire Temple had been rebuilt, and that the
Amazonian women had fixed their habitations round
about it; but the Leleges and Lydians dwelt in the
hills. We also find that the Ionian colonists con-
sulted the oracle of this temple, in obedience to
which they selected the site of their city, and built
in gratitude another temple to the honour of Diana,
in the Agora, within their city."4 The reason of
building this second temple, might have been either
from wishing to have a temple within the city ; or
from desiring to celebrate her rites in the Greek
manner; or else in order to worship her under
another form, as Diana Venatrix, or Diana Lucifera.
As we have no further particulars respecting this
temple in the Agora, we cannot suppose it was of
any consequence, or that it at all interfered with the
original temple at the port.
The Temple of Diana, according to Pliny, had
1 See page 21.
2 Tins was another tribe of Amazons, and came from Cimmena.
—(Syncellus, Chron. Gr. et Led. 1G32,)
3 Eus Pampli. Chronic. Canorwm, ii. 95.
4 See page 42.
established the Temple with, rites and ceremonies.1
According to Eusebius, the Amazons3 subsequently-
burnt the Temple, and immediately afterwards
Silvius Posthumus was the third king of the
Latins.3 This must, therefore, have happened
about 1150 B.C.
On the arrival of the Ionian colony, we find
that tire Temple had been rebuilt, and that the
Amazonian women had fixed their habitations round
about it; but the Leleges and Lydians dwelt in the
hills. We also find that the Ionian colonists con-
sulted the oracle of this temple, in obedience to
which they selected the site of their city, and built
in gratitude another temple to the honour of Diana,
in the Agora, within their city."4 The reason of
building this second temple, might have been either
from wishing to have a temple within the city ; or
from desiring to celebrate her rites in the Greek
manner; or else in order to worship her under
another form, as Diana Venatrix, or Diana Lucifera.
As we have no further particulars respecting this
temple in the Agora, we cannot suppose it was of
any consequence, or that it at all interfered with the
original temple at the port.
The Temple of Diana, according to Pliny, had
1 See page 21.
2 Tins was another tribe of Amazons, and came from Cimmena.
—(Syncellus, Chron. Gr. et Led. 1G32,)
3 Eus Pampli. Chronic. Canorwm, ii. 95.
4 See page 42.