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A size comparison between the Temple of Artemis (one of the seven wonders of the ancient world), the Parthenon and the Temple of Apollo at Didyma.
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Khloros Phyllo
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Khloros Phyllo
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Desirous of higher civilization. Animal & nature guardian. History, Art, Philosophy, Politics.
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Charles Laughton as Claudius speaking to the Roman Senate in the unfinished I, Claudius, 1937
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According to Pausanias, Polykleitos the Younger is the architect of the theatre.
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Pausanias on the Theatre of Epidaurus: "while the Roman theaters are far superior to those anywhere else in their splendor, and the Arcadian theater at Megalopolis is unequalled for size, what architect could seriously rival Polycleitus in symmetry and beauty?"
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The Theatre of Epidaurus, the best-preserved theatre from Ancient Greece. Known for its incredible acoustics, even someone speaking in a soft voice can be heard in the outer rows.
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The Ephesian Artemis as a fountain. Made in the 16th century. In the Villa d'Este, Italy.
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You’ve heard of Athens.
You’ve heard of Santorini.
But the most underrated place in Greece?
A ghost town called Mystras, and it’s mind-blowing….🧵
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The odds of this siege were so overwhelming against the defenders that many events of this siege are described as out of this world.
The Avar siege of 626 is coming into a graphic novel, exactly 1400 years after.
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The Virginia Hercules!
Washington called him a one-man-army.
Peter Francisco was a Portuguese born American Blacksmith who stood at 6 ft 6 in and 265 lbs.
His feats of strength during the American Revolution gave him the monikers, The Virginia Hercules and the Giant of the Revolution. 1/15🧵
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@ivan_ruggeri I've actually come some coins that may depict the temple, or at least they show Artemis of Ephesus in a temple
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A size comparison between the Temple of Artemis (one of the seven wonders of the ancient world), the Parthenon and the Temple of Apollo at Didyma.
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"But all cities worship Artemis of Ephesus... Three other points as well have contributed to her renown, the size of the temple, surpassing all buildings among men, the eminence of the city of the Ephesians and the renown of the goddess who dwells there." - Pausanias
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The Artemis worshipped in Ephesus was a mother goddess rather than her usual form of a huntress.
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@MitraHispana Congratulations on the hit post. It was very good.
I'm interested in pretty much all the topics you cover but I've been reading and posting about Ancient Greece recently so that would be cool. Neoplatonism I want to learn more about so perhaps that.
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An example of the prosperity of Asia Minor's coastal trade towns is that individual cities like Ephesus could rival the Athenian Empire in absolute economic scale at its peak, despite the empire controlling much of the Aegean through its league of allies.
While the works in Athens were impressive for mainland Greece, there was a clear disparity in wealth between the coastal trade towns of Asia Minor and the Greek mainland. Ephesus in particular was a juggernaut of profit-making thanks to its near-perfect location and its natural harbor (shallow, safe waters that would eventually silt up😢) along with its control of key east Mediterranean trade routes linking Greece, Anatolia, Syria, and Egypt. Busy ports handled grain, wine, olive oil, timber, and luxury goods, while the city cleverly leveraged the cult of Artemis to promote its coinage and the banking services of the Artemision, which loaned huge sums of money across the east Mediterranean.
This wealth was enough for Ephesus to build the Temple of Artemis twice on a grand scale. The original temple, funded in part by the Lydian King Croesus, was already the grandest in the Aegean. Yet the Ephesians surpassed even that, funding an even more majestic structure while clearing the rubble from the previous one (thanks to Herostratus, if that was his name). It wasn’t just bigger, it was a much more insane engineering and financial beast: an all-marble dipteros with a forest of columns. Meanwhile the Milesians constructed the huge Temple of Apollo at Didyma, a temple of similar immense size and scale that they even tried to surpass Ephesus's masterpiece but ultimately fell short in completion and overall grandeur.
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A size comparison between the Temple of Artemis (one of the seven wonders of the ancient world), the Parthenon and the Temple of Apollo at Didyma.
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The works in Athens were impressive for mainland Greece, but there was a clear disparity in wealth between the coastal trade towns of Asia Minor and the Greek mainland. Ephesus in particular was a juggernaut of profit-making, thanks to its near-perfect location and its natural harbor (shallow, safe waters that would eventually silt up 😢). The city also cleverly leveraged the cult of Artemis to promote its coinage and the banking services of the Artemision. The original temple, funded in part by the Lydian King Croesus, was already the grandest in the Aegean. Yet the Ephesians managed to surpass even that, funding an even more majestic structure while clearing the rubble from the previous one. (Thanks to Herostratus, if that was his name)
There was virtually no way Athens in 520 BC could've managed to build anything even close to the Artemision really, it wasn't just bigger, it was a much more insane engineering and financial beast (an all-marble dipteros with a forest of columns). Even in the Periclean period, it was a challenge to create the Parthenon, which put significant strain on the treasury (though being on a hill does make it more impressive).
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