The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was destroyed on July 21, 356 BC in an act of arson committed by whom?
Dinocrates hydraulic engineer who built the waterworks for the city and the sewer system demanded by the low-lying site. In Babylon, he designed the funerary monument to Alexander's general Hephaestion (died in 324 BC), which was described by Diodorus Siculus, Arrian, Strabo, Plutarch and others. It was built of stone (unavailable locally) in imitation of a Babylonian temple, six stories tall, and entirely gilded. Dinocrates collaborated with Paeonius of Ephesus and Demetrius in reconstructing the Temple of Artemis—one of the "seven wonders of the world"—which had been destroyed by Herostratus in an act of arson on July 21, 356 BC, the
Temple of Artemis falsified, unitary picture, as of an unchanging icon. Temple of Artemis The Temple of Artemis or Artemision (; ), also known less precisely as the Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to an ancient, local form of the goddess Artemis. It was located in Ephesus (near the modern town of Selçuk in present-day Turkey). It was completely rebuilt three times, and in its final form was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. By 401 AD it had been ruined or destroyed. Only foundations and fragments of the last temple remain at the site. The earliest