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DESCRIPTION OF ORIGINAL TEMPLE OF DIANA. 8l
as well as gold, and although it is not in our power
in the present day to appreciate the beauty of a painted
building, as we do not understand the use of colour
in a building like the temple, we must take it for
granted that a building of exquisite beauty and pro-
portion was the result of the united efforts of archi-
tect, sculptor, and painter. In its details, the refined
conic section, the ellipse, was used for the flutings and
mouldings.
The earliest of the three temples of which remains
were found was commenced B.C. 480 by Ctesiphon
and his son Metagenes, and completed by Demetrius,
a priest of Diana, and Faeonius an Ephesian. This
temple was destroyed early in the fifth century B.C.,
and was succeeded by another built on the same site.
The architect's name has not been handed down to us,
but we know that it was destroyed by Erostratus on
the day Alexander was born, B.C. 356. The third and
last temple, which was building in the time of Alex-
ander, and which must have made great progress at
the time he visited Ephesus, as he offered to pay all
the expenses of its completion, if he were allowed to
dedicate the temple to Artemis in his own name; this
the enthusiastic Ephesians would not allow. The archi-
tect of the temple was Dinocrates, a Macedonian.
It has been suggested that the marble with which
the temple was built came from the quarries in Mount
Coressus ; but there is no marble there, nor is there
in the immediate neighbourhood of the temple any trace
of a large marble quarry, such as would have furnished
the material of which the temple was built. I believe
myself that the marble came from Cosbounar, where
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as well as gold, and although it is not in our power
in the present day to appreciate the beauty of a painted
building, as we do not understand the use of colour
in a building like the temple, we must take it for
granted that a building of exquisite beauty and pro-
portion was the result of the united efforts of archi-
tect, sculptor, and painter. In its details, the refined
conic section, the ellipse, was used for the flutings and
mouldings.
The earliest of the three temples of which remains
were found was commenced B.C. 480 by Ctesiphon
and his son Metagenes, and completed by Demetrius,
a priest of Diana, and Faeonius an Ephesian. This
temple was destroyed early in the fifth century B.C.,
and was succeeded by another built on the same site.
The architect's name has not been handed down to us,
but we know that it was destroyed by Erostratus on
the day Alexander was born, B.C. 356. The third and
last temple, which was building in the time of Alex-
ander, and which must have made great progress at
the time he visited Ephesus, as he offered to pay all
the expenses of its completion, if he were allowed to
dedicate the temple to Artemis in his own name; this
the enthusiastic Ephesians would not allow. The archi-
tect of the temple was Dinocrates, a Macedonian.
It has been suggested that the marble with which
the temple was built came from the quarries in Mount
Coressus ; but there is no marble there, nor is there
in the immediate neighbourhood of the temple any trace
of a large marble quarry, such as would have furnished
the material of which the temple was built. I believe
myself that the marble came from Cosbounar, where
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