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Ephesus; The temple was built after Hadrian's death by Publius Vedius Antoninus. It contained a triumphal gate in imitation of the Arch of Hadrian in Athens. [3] Rome; The great Temple of Hadrian in Rome was built by his successor, Antoninus Pius, in 145. [5] Seleucia; A temple here has been dated to the reign of Antoninus Pius.
The Temple of Hadrian (Templum Divus Hadrianus, also Hadrianeum) is an ancient Roman structure on the Campus Martius in Rome, Italy, dedicated to the deified emperor Hadrian by his adoptive son and successor Antoninus Pius in 145 CE [1] This temple was previously known as the Basilica of Neptune but has since been properly attributed as the Temple of Hadrian completed under Antoninus Pius. [2]
The Temple of Artemis or Artemision (Greek: Ἀρτεμίσιον; Turkish: Artemis Tapınağı), also known as the Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to an ancient, localised form of the goddess Artemis (equated with the Roman goddess Diana). It was located in Ephesus (near the modern town of Selçuk in present-day Turkey).
The Church of Mary in Ephesus. The Church of Mary (Turkish: Meryem Kilisesi) was an ancient Christian cathedral dedicated to the Theotokos ("Mother of God", i.e., the Virgin Mary), located in Ephesus (near present-day Selçuk in Turkey).
Model of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus. Chersiphron (/ ˈ k ɜːr s ɪ f r ɒ n /; Ancient Greek: Χερσίφρων; fl. 6th century BC), an architect of Knossos in ancient Crete, was the builder of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, on the Ionian coast. [1]
Destroying the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus—and, concomitantly, seeking fame at any cost Herostratus ( Ancient Greek : Ἡρόστρατος ) was a 4th-century BC Greek, accused of seeking notoriety as an arsonist by destroying the second Temple of Artemis in Ephesus (on the outskirts of present-day Selçuk ), one of the Seven Wonders of the ...
The interior of the library and its contents were destroyed in a fire that resulted either from an earthquake or a Gothic invasion in 262 CE, [9] [7] and the façade by an earthquake in the 10th or 11th century. [10] It lay in ruins for centuries until the façade was re-erected by archaeologists between 1970 and 1978. [11]
Remains of the Serapeum of Alexandria Marble bust of Serapis, Roman copy after a Greek original from the 4th century BC. A serapeum is a temple or other religious institution dedicated to the syncretic Greco-Egyptian deity Serapis, who combined aspects of Osiris and Apis in a humanized form that was accepted by the Ptolemaic Greeks of Alexandria.