Posted on 11/06/2008 6:03:06 PM PST by SunkenCiv
One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is set to be resurrected in Selcuk, Turkey. The famous Temple of Artemis was built at the expense of the Lydian king Karun in the 7th century B.C. Its architecture included 120 columns and 25,000 cubic meters of marble. The massive structure was dedicated to Artemis, the Greek goddess of virginity, fertility and the hunt. The original temple was destroyed during the early period of Christianity in Anatolia. In 2007, the Artemis Culture, Arts, and Education Foundation, was founded with the objective of rebuilding the ancient temple approximately 1,500 meters away from its original location. The project, which is projected to cost $150 million, is set to begin as soon as the official permission for the land allocation is granted.
Dr. Atilay Ileri, the founder of the Selcuk Artemis Culture, Arts and Education Foundation, intends to choose sculptors from the 196 U.N. member countries. They will take part in workshops provided by the Foundation, and eventually two sculptures created in the workshops will be chosen by a committee to be featured in the temple. "When the temple is completed," says Ileri, "the workshops will start serving as a school of sculpture. Selcuk will be the center of world sculpture."
The Turkish Daily News reports on the plans to resurrect the ancient Temple of Artemis.
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Okay, Okay, can we cut down on all the articles about how great Obama is? We get it already, he’s the greatest thing that ever happened.
I think that is how Obama is going to redo the Oval Office
“Great is Diana of the Ephesians!”
You could not built that in America. It’s missing the wheel chair ramps.
Why do they want to recreate it? Isn’t that for Las Vegas, where they make all the replicas?
I went to Ephesus in 2007 and loved it there. I thought it was pretty cool. Especially the library. It was hotter than Hades though (about 112 degrees F).
LOL. I don’t know why but your post totally cracked me up. Imagine if the idiots were in charge they’d make us tear down all the old existing structures such as the Parthenon at the Acropolis and no way could a person go up there in a wheelchair, not on those slippery marble stairs.
So that’s what they’re doing with those pillars....
Artemis (Diana) was thought to be the ancient Mediterraenean mother goddess with the multiple breasts, in figures dating back for thousands of years.
The original temple was destroyed by Herostratus in 356 BC.
It was later rebuilt and this next temple was described by Sidon before Christ was born as one of the Seven Wonders.
That temple was was destroyed again by pagan Goths in 262 AD.
By the early 400s the ruin was scavenged by builders making off with the marble, leaving little behind.
Where’s Obama? I don’t see him in that picture.
The ancient Greeks saw her as an attractive young girl and that is the way she is portrayed in their artwork.
Of course the quote "great is Diana of the Ephesians" is from the Bible. A silversmith named (Demetrius?) incited a riot because he thought Paul's converting people to Christianity would hurt his business of making small trinkets of Diana for sale.
Goddess of fertility AND virginity. That’s a pretty neat trick there... To my knowledge, this has only been done once.
Yeah, I was kind of wondering about that.
Marble statue of the Ephesian Artemis, Turkey. (125-175 A.D.) Image courtesy of Corel Corporation.
"The stone of Cronus at Delphi, the image of Diana at Ephesus, which, according to Acts (19:35), was the image which fell down from Jupiter, the stones of Amon and Seth at Thebes, were meteorites. Also the image of Venus on Cyprus was a stone which fell from the sky. The Palladium of Troy was a stone that fell on the earth "from Pallas Athene" (the planet Venus). The sacred stone of Tyre, too, was a meteorite related to Astarte, the planet Venus. "Traveling about the world, she [Astarte] found a star falling from air, or sky, which she taking up, consecrated on the holy island [Tyre]." At Aphaca in Syria a meteorite fell which "was thought to be Astarte herself," and a temple to Astarte was built there; festivals "were regularly timed to coincide with the appearance of Venus as the Morning or Evening Star."
"The stone of Cronus at Delphi, the image of Diana at Ephesus, which, according to Acts (19:35), was the image which fell down from Jupiter, the stones of Amon and Seth at Thebes, were meteorites. Also the image of Venus on Cyprus was a stone which fell from the sky. The Palladium of Troy was a stone that fell on the earth "from Pallas Athene" (the planet Venus). The sacred stone of Tyre, too, was a meteorite related to Astarte, the planet Venus. "Traveling about the world, she [Astarte] found a star falling from air, or sky, which she taking up, consecrated on the holy island [Tyre]." At Aphaca in Syria a meteorite fell which "was thought to be Astarte herself," and a temple to Astarte was built there; festivals "were regularly timed to coincide with the appearance of Venus as the Morning or Evening Star."
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