Category "Seven Wonders of the World" Competition

genyakuc (56)in #contest • 7 years ago (edited)

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Competition Golos.io

Greetings to you, dear residents of our unique continent, the open section "Seven Wonders of the World" comes into force. Join the rubric, the first 6 participants who will write a comment will take part in this message.

For example, @genyakuc participates in the "Temple of Artemis"

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Duration with active participation 3 days with less active week

Purpose: to tell and disclose this topic. Tag will be next # contest

I'll start with the Temple of Artemis

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The temple project, according to Strabo, was designed by the architect Hersifron of Knossos. The huge temple towered majestically over the city of Ephesus and was recognized as one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The townspeople esteemed Artemis as the goddess of fertility. At that time, the worship of the forces of nature was developed. In the circle of the statue began to build a temple that is usually called one of the seven wonders of the world. Money donated to the construction of the famous rich man Lydian king of Dreams. Few facts in the 19th century established the size of the temple 73 m by 127 m. The temple itself measured 50 m in width. 105 length. In the temple there were 100 columns of marble with a height of 17 m each. And with a diameter of 2 m. The roof was covered with white marble tiles, even there are stories and that the place of the solution that the blocks were fastening used gold.

Never in history before, when building such structures, such large blogs of marble were not used. The Temple of Artemis of Ephesus was an outstanding achievement of Greek architecture, which in turn attracted masses of travelers from all corners of the earth. In 356 BC. A certain Herostratus set fire to the temple. But when the temple was restored it was also magnificent. People were happy to find work at the temple. But there were also those who could expose what was happening from the inside, as the philosopher Heraclitus put it, he compared the passage that led to the altar with the darkness of depravity, in his opinion, the morals of the temple were worse than those of the animals.

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Another curious fact. Anyone with any past could find a shelter in the temple, this led to an increase in lawlessness and the temple of Artemis turned into a kind of refuge for criminals. In order not to make a man, if he was near the wall of the temple, he could not be arrested. This led to the fact that in the course of time nearby the whole settlements of thieves and murderers arose. Since Ephesus was a port city, where trade flourished, speculation, huge sums of money arrived in the possession of the temple, since that place was considered sacred, the temple was not just a shrine, it was the most important banking center of all Asia. But over time the port suffered very much from silting up and ceased to exist, the city was gradually emptied. And somewhere near the end of the 4th century AD. E. The Emperor Theodosius the First, declared that Rome had adopted Christianity as a state religion. This led to the fact that the temple of Artemis began to be dismantled for stand-materials. Nowadays in this place there is neither a city nor a temple but only its ruins that helps travelers to plunge into the distant past and imagine this place how grand it once was!

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