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

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THE CELEBRATED TEMPLE. 229

the same building as the eighth, and so dates back
the two hundred and twenty years to the time of
Otesiphon and Metagenes designing the proportions
of the sixth temple, and of Theodorus of Samos
laying its foundations.

Theodorus of Samos, as we have seen,1 was
the son of Bhcecus : and Rhoecus, we learn from
Herodotus,3 was the architect who commenced the
Temple at Samos. He also enumerates in the
same passage other monuments of art produced by
the Samians, as a tuimel and an aqueduct cut
through the mountain, seven stadia in length ; and
a mole projecting into the sea, two stadia or more
in length, and about one hundred and twenty feet
high. By Aristotle we arc told, that " Polycrates
caused the great works in Samos to be executed,"
(xai ruiv 7rep» ~%o.[xov s'pya Ylo?wxf/UTsia ;)3 and it has
therefore been supposed that these great works
are the great works spoken of by Herodotus, and
consequently that Rhoecus, the father of Theodorus,
was contemporary with Polycrates. Polycrates died
522 B.C., after a reign of eight years."1 Now, if
Ave suppose he began these works in the beginning
of his reign, which is probable, and allow thirty
years for a generation, we shall find that Theodorus
flourished about 500 B.C., at which period we may
suppose the foundations of the Temple of Diana

1 See page 224. -' Herod, iii. GO.

3 Arist. l'olit. v. 11. or viii. 9. ■> Earth. Anach. Ixxiv.
 
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