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

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234 TEMPLE OF DIANA.

We are told that the Temple of Diana was built
at the common expense of all Asia,1 but it is not
at all clear which temple is here referred to.
The fifth temple, which was standing in the year
557 B.C., we know to have been so built;3 and
it is probable that all the succeeding temples were
so likewise : for Bphesus had then become the chief
city of Asia, and obtained the title of Ncolcoros,
together with the honour of having the Panionium
established in its territory; and would therefore
naturally expect, if it had not the power of de-
manding, assistance from all those cities of which
it was the head: and the pretext upon which the
Ephesians refused Alexander's offer, would confirm
this supposition. For as they were then receiving
contributions from cities and individuals, from
strangers and natives, and preferred having the
Temple built by these means, from the greater
reverence that would be paid to the shrine, and
the greater hold it would have upon the minds of
the people, than were the expense defrayed by a
single individual, they could not tell him, that hold-
ing the sacred and honourable title of NeoJeqros, they
were bound to defray the expense among them-
selves ; or that having determined to do so, they
had refused all other offers of assistance; each of

1 Plin. //. vV. xxxvi. 21. " Asia is bounded on the east by Lycia
and Phrygia, on the west by the ^Egean sea, on the south by the
Egyptian sea, and on the north by Paphlagonia."—(Solinus, lii.)

2 Liv. i. 45. See page 215.
 
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