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The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus in Greece (356 BC), which combined great size with elaborate ornamentation, was destroyed by the Goths in AD 262. Greek colonists at Ephesus, a major city in Asia Minor, built the famous temple of Artemis. The early settlers found the Asian inhabitants worshiping a many-breasted nature goddess whom they identified as Artemis (called Diana by the Romans). The Ephesusians raised a shrine to her, which was rebuilt and enlarged from time to time. The fourth temple was the one regarded as the wonder of the world. Dedicated about 430 BC, the temple is said to have been built by contributions from all the great cities of Asia and to have taken 120 years to complete. According to tradition, this great temple was set on fire in 356 BC, the same night Alexander the Great was born. The crime is said to have been committed by a man named Herostratus, merely that his name might be remembered. Very little of the temple of Artemis (Diana) at Ephesus remains today. The drawing shows the huge temple as it is believe to have looked in the 4th century BC.
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