The Temple of Artemis (Greek: Ἀρτεμίσιον or Artemis), even less precisely as Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple of a Greek goddess Artemis, ended as that in the phase of identifying known famous, around 550 BC at Ephesus (today's Turkey). The Temple of Artemis was near the ancient city of Ephesus, about 50 km south of the modern port city of Izmir, Turkey. Today the town is situated on the edge of the modern town of Selcuk away. Although the monument was one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, only the foundations and fragments of sculptures of the temple. There was the temple to its previous location, is in the detection of a Shrine of the Bronze Age. The whole temple of marble, with the exception of the roof.
The temple is advance by ion migration for many years. Callimachus in his Hymn to Artemis, attributed the origin of the temenos at Ephesus to the Amazons, whose worship he imagines himself, already focused on a picture. In the seventh century, was the old temple, destroyed by a flood. The construction of the "new" Temple, who had become known as one of the wonders of the ancient world, began around 550 BC. It was a project of 120 years, originally designed and built by Cretan architect and his son Chersiphron Metagen at the expense of Croesus of Lydia.
The temple is advance by ion migration for many years. Callimachus in his Hymn to Artemis, attributed the origin of the temenos at Ephesus to the Amazons, whose worship he imagines himself, already focused on a picture. In the seventh century, was the old temple, destroyed by a flood. The construction of the "new" Temple, who had become known as one of the wonders of the ancient world, began around 550 BC. It was a project of 120 years, originally designed and built by Cretan architect and his son Chersiphron Metagen at the expense of Croesus of Lydia.
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