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SCOPAS OF FAROS.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
WORKS OF SCOPAS
(continued).
TEMPLE OF ARTEMIS' AT EPHESUS.
From time immemorial down to the Christian era the worship of a
Goddess, introduced among the Carians at a very early period, perhaps
by the Phoenicians, appears to have flourished in the city of Ephesus.
But the type of the Ephesian deity,2 to whom the Greeks gave the
name of Artemis, differs very widely from any of the forms in which
this Goddess appeared to her Greek worshippers, and is indeed
essentially non-Hellenic. The Greeks, who, as we are told, colonized
Ephesus in the eleventh century b.C. under Codrus, found the wor-
ship of a Goddess called Upis already firmly established. Her first
attendants were said to be the Amazons who lived among the
Lydians and Leleges about her temple. This deity the colonists
identified with Artemis, which is singular enough, for it would be
difficult to find a greater contrast to the active virgin huntress than
the motionless form of the Ephesian goddess, covered with fully
developed female breasts, whom St. Jerome calls ' the mother of all
animal life.' Fortunately we possess many copies of the Ephesian
idol. The lower limbs arc tightly wrapped in her garment, so as to
give her the appearance of a mummy. On her chest are parallel
rows of breasts, and under them symbolical objects —bees, flowers,
1 For statues of Artemis see P.ius. i. 23.
9; x. 37. t; vii. 9. I ; viii. 37. 2; Cic. it
Verr. ii. 4. 34. None of the extant figures
of this goddess are of great excellence.
1 There is a fine head of the Ephesian
Artemis of the Greek type in the Vatican
(No. 81) 'Gallery of Vases,' and a statue in
the Conservator! Palace at Rome —with
bronze head, neck, hands, and feet, and the
rest of the body of marble—which is pro-
fusely ornamented with lions, horses, winged
monsters, bees, (lowers, &c.
SCOPAS OF FAROS.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
WORKS OF SCOPAS
(continued).
TEMPLE OF ARTEMIS' AT EPHESUS.
From time immemorial down to the Christian era the worship of a
Goddess, introduced among the Carians at a very early period, perhaps
by the Phoenicians, appears to have flourished in the city of Ephesus.
But the type of the Ephesian deity,2 to whom the Greeks gave the
name of Artemis, differs very widely from any of the forms in which
this Goddess appeared to her Greek worshippers, and is indeed
essentially non-Hellenic. The Greeks, who, as we are told, colonized
Ephesus in the eleventh century b.C. under Codrus, found the wor-
ship of a Goddess called Upis already firmly established. Her first
attendants were said to be the Amazons who lived among the
Lydians and Leleges about her temple. This deity the colonists
identified with Artemis, which is singular enough, for it would be
difficult to find a greater contrast to the active virgin huntress than
the motionless form of the Ephesian goddess, covered with fully
developed female breasts, whom St. Jerome calls ' the mother of all
animal life.' Fortunately we possess many copies of the Ephesian
idol. The lower limbs arc tightly wrapped in her garment, so as to
give her the appearance of a mummy. On her chest are parallel
rows of breasts, and under them symbolical objects —bees, flowers,
1 For statues of Artemis see P.ius. i. 23.
9; x. 37. t; vii. 9. I ; viii. 37. 2; Cic. it
Verr. ii. 4. 34. None of the extant figures
of this goddess are of great excellence.
1 There is a fine head of the Ephesian
Artemis of the Greek type in the Vatican
(No. 81) 'Gallery of Vases,' and a statue in
the Conservator! Palace at Rome —with
bronze head, neck, hands, and feet, and the
rest of the body of marble—which is pro-
fusely ornamented with lions, horses, winged
monsters, bees, (lowers, &c.