The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, in what is now western Turkey, was a huge temple dedicated to the Greek goddess Artemis and one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. There were several successive temples on the site. The famous marble temple was built around the sixth century BCE, with funding from the Lydian king Croesus, and burned down in 356 BCE when a man called Herostratus set it on fire to become famous. It was rebuilt on a grand scale in the years that followed. The temple was damaged by the Goths in the third century CE and later abandoned as Christianity spread, and today only a single reconstructed column stands at the site.
Before and after
- from November 326 BCE to February 325 BCEMallian Campaign
- from 323 BCE to 322 BCELamian War
- 323 BCEFarnese Hercules
- from 323 BCE to 30 BCEHellenistic period
- 323 BCEConstruction of Temple of Ephesian Artemis
- 10 June 323 BCEDeath of Alexander the Great
- from 322 BCE to 74 BCEBithynia
- from 322 BCE to 185 BCEMaurya empire
- 322 BCEDeath of Aristotle
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- from 285 CE to 1453Byzantine Empire
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