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EFESSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Sanctuary of Olympian Zeus at Ephesus.
her statue was placed in the temple of that goddess at Ephesus ( Praef.; Serv. ad Verg. Aen.vi. 250; Tibull. iii. 4, 17; Verg. Aen.v. 721, etc.).
EFESSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Androclus was killed in the battle. The Ephesians carried off his body and buried it in their own land, at the spot where his tomb is pointed out at the present day, on the road leading from the sanctuary past the Olympieum to the Magnesian gate. On the tomb is a statue of an armed man.
ORTYGIA (Ancient sanctuary) TURKEY
There are several temples in the place, some ancient and others built in later times; and in the ancient temples are many ancient wooden images, but in those of later times there are works of Scopas; for example, Leto holding a sceptre and Ortygia standing beside her with a child in each arm. A general festival is held there annually; and by a certain custom the youths vie for honor, particularly in the splendor of their banquets there. At that time, also, a special college of the Curetes holds symposiums and performs certain mystic sacrifices.
EFESSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
It was not by the Amazons that the sanctuary was founded, but by Coresus, an aboriginal, and Ephesus, who is thought to have been a son of the river Cayster. There were some people who dwelt around the sanctuary for the sake of its protection, and these included some women of the race of the Amazons.
After the burning of the temple by Herostratus, the Ionian cities with the architect Denostratus, rebuilt a new temple four times larger than Parthenon.
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