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ARCHITECTS OF THE TEMPLE.
277
pn the site ; or these examples may perhaps be taken as
proofs that Greek art did not make the same progress at
Ephesus as at Athens during the fourth and fifth centu-
ries B.C.
The discovery of the fact that the last three Temples
of Artemis at Ephesus were not only built upon the same
site, but were of the same dimensions, will assist materially
to clear up some of the statements of ancient writers
which have appeared to be irreconcilable.
Philo, an architect of Byzantium, who wrote about three
centuries before Christ, informs us that an immense ex-
cavation was made, and the foundations were laid with
stone from the quarries above : (the hill at Ayasalouk ?),
and that the work was then commenced by forming a
basement of ten steps.
Pliny and Diogenes Laertius tell us that the founda-
tions of the Temple were laid on charcoal and fleeces of
Wool, according to the advice of Theodoras of Samos, son
°f Rhoekos, about the year b.c. 500.
Vitruvius, writing in the time of Augustus, about
2."> li-('., tells us that the Temple of Diana at Ephesus, of
le Ionic order, was built by Ctesiphon of Gnossus
. nt' his son Metagenes, and was afterwards completed
) Demetrius, a priest of Diana, and Paeonius, an
Ephesian.
1 he temple commenced by Ctesiphon and his son
^as doubtless the one first raised on the foundations laid
fheodorus of Samos, and was probably begun about
Architects
of the
Temple.
the
year b.c .1X0-460.
1 lie names of the architects of the temple which was
277
pn the site ; or these examples may perhaps be taken as
proofs that Greek art did not make the same progress at
Ephesus as at Athens during the fourth and fifth centu-
ries B.C.
The discovery of the fact that the last three Temples
of Artemis at Ephesus were not only built upon the same
site, but were of the same dimensions, will assist materially
to clear up some of the statements of ancient writers
which have appeared to be irreconcilable.
Philo, an architect of Byzantium, who wrote about three
centuries before Christ, informs us that an immense ex-
cavation was made, and the foundations were laid with
stone from the quarries above : (the hill at Ayasalouk ?),
and that the work was then commenced by forming a
basement of ten steps.
Pliny and Diogenes Laertius tell us that the founda-
tions of the Temple were laid on charcoal and fleeces of
Wool, according to the advice of Theodoras of Samos, son
°f Rhoekos, about the year b.c. 500.
Vitruvius, writing in the time of Augustus, about
2."> li-('., tells us that the Temple of Diana at Ephesus, of
le Ionic order, was built by Ctesiphon of Gnossus
. nt' his son Metagenes, and was afterwards completed
) Demetrius, a priest of Diana, and Paeonius, an
Ephesian.
1 he temple commenced by Ctesiphon and his son
^as doubtless the one first raised on the foundations laid
fheodorus of Samos, and was probably begun about
Architects
of the
Temple.
the
year b.c .1X0-460.
1 lie names of the architects of the temple which was