Who was the temple that Herostratus sought to destroy dedicated to?
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Herostratus Herostratus (Ancient Greek: Ἡρόστρατος ) — or Erostratus — was a 4th-century BC Greek arsonist, who sought notoriety by destroying the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. His acts prompted the creation of a "damnatio memoriae" law, forbidding anyone to mention his name. Nevertheless, his name has become a metonym for someone who commits a criminal act in order to become noted.
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Temple of Artemis The Temple of Artemis or Artemision (, Turkish: "Artemis Tapınağı" ), also known less precisely as the Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to the goddess Artemis. It was located in Ephesus (near the modern town of Selçuk in present-day Turkey). One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, it was completely rebuilt three times before its final destruction in 401 AD. Only foundations and sculptural fragments of the latest of the temples at the site remain.
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Maximinus II Maximinus II (Latin: "Gaius Valerius Galerius Maximinus Daia Augustus" ; 20 November c. 270 – July or August 313), also known as Maximinus Daia or Maximinus Daza, was Roman Emperor from 308 to 313. He became embroiled in the Civil wars of the Tetrarchy between rival claimants for control of the empire, in which he was defeated by Licinius. A committed pagan, he engaged in one of the last persecutions of Christians.
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Adiatorix Adiatorix (Gr. Ἀδιατόριξ ) was the son of the tetrarch Domneclius (or Domnilaus) in Galatia. Cicero reports that he was a high priest in 50 BC, and scholars have reckoned him an adherent of Deiotarus. He belonged to Mark Antony's party, and was put in charge of Heraclea Pontica by him. Shortly before the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, Adiatorix had all the Romans colonists in Heracleia put to death. He claimed he had been given permission to do so by Mark Antony, but modern writers consider this doubtful. After this battle he was led as prisoner in the triumph of Augustus, and put to death with his younger son. His elder son, Dyteutus, was subsequently made priest of Bellona in Comana, and therefore ruler of that territory.
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Poltys In Greek mythology, Poltys (Πόλτυς) is a mythical king and eponym of the Thracian city of Poltyobria (or "Poltymbria"; also called Aenus), featured in Apollodorus's account of the story of the hero Heracles. Poltys and his brother Sarpedon are given as sons of the sea-god Poseidon. Poltys hosted Heracles when the hero came to Aenus; although Poltys welcomed Heracles, Sarpedon did not, and was slain by Heracles on the beach.
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Hiero Hiero or hieron ( ; Ancient Greek: ἱερόν , "holy place") is a holy shrine, temple, or temple precinct in Ancient Greece.
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Assesos Assesos or Assesus (Ancient Greek: Ἀσσησός ) was a small ancient Greek town in the region of Caria in Asia Minor, near Miletus, and the site of a sanctuary of Athena. It is mentioned by Herodotus in his "Histories" (I.18–23) in the context of an episode during the war between the Lydians under Sadyattes and the Milesians in the late 7th century BC, when Lydian troops destroyed the sanctuary.
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Temple of Fides The Temple of Fides (Latin: "aedes Fidei") was a minor temple on the Capitoline Hill in Rome. It was dedicated to Fides, the goddess of good faith, who was patron of diplomatic relations. It was on the southern part of the Area Capitolina, slightly to the south of the Temple of Ops, in a vast piazza in front of the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus.
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Temple of Neptune (Rome) The Temple of Neptune (Latin: "Aedes Neptuni") was an ancient Roman temple dedicated to Neptune on the Campus Martius near the Circus Flaminius in Rome.
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Metroon A metroon (Greek: Μητρῷον , "Mētrō̂on" or "Mētrō̂ion") was an ancient Greek temple dedicated to a mother goddess. They were often devoted to Cybele, Demeter, or Rhea.
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Zealot Temple Siege The Zealot Temple Siege (68 AD) was a short siege of the Temple in Jerusalem fought between Jewish factions during the Great Jewish Revolt against the Roman Empire (66–70 AD). The forces of Ananus ben Ananus, a Jewish priest and former High Priest of Israel, besieged the Zealots who held the Temple.
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Alalcomeneis Alalcomeneis (Gr. Ἀλαλκομενηίς ) was an epithet of the Greek goddess Athena, the origin of which was subject to several theories. Some derived it from the name of the hero Alalcomenes, or from the Boeotian village of Alalcomenae, where in some traditions she was said to have been born. In or near that town there was a temple of Athena Alalcomeneis that was plundered by the Roman general Sulla in the early 1st century BC. After he removed the temple's main icon, an ivory statue of the goddess, the place fell into disuse and disrepair. In the early 19th century, William Martin Leake claimed ruins of the temple could still be seen.
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Heracles of Macedon Heracles of Macedon (Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλῆς ; c. 327 – 309 BC) was a reputed illegitimate son of Alexander the Great of Macedon by Barsine, daughter of Satrap Artabazus of Phrygia. Heracles was named after the Greek mythological hero of the same name, from whom the Argeads claimed descent.
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Herostratus (film) Herostratus is a 1967 film made in London by the Australian director Don Levy, about a young man who wants to commit suicide in public by jumping off a tall building.
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Cyamites Cyamites or Kyamites (Greek Κυαμίτης from κύαμος "bean") was a hero in ancient Greek religion, worshiped locally in Athens. He had a sanctuary ("heroon") on the sacred road to Eleusis.
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Antinous Antinous (also "Antinoüs" or "Antinoös"; Ancient Greek: Ἀντίνοος ; 27 November, c. 111 – before 30 October 130) was a Bithynian Greek youth and a favourite, or lover, of the Roman emperor Hadrian. He was deified after his death, being worshiped in both the Greek East and Latin West, sometimes as a god ("theos") and sometimes merely as a hero ("heros").
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Archestratus (general) Archestratus (Ancient Greek: Ἀρχέστρατος ) was a general who in 432 BCE was sent by Athens to Potidaea, in which a revolt was brewing, to take Potidean hostages and demolish the city wall. It is possible this expedition included the general Alcibiades and philosopher Socrates.
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Thespesius of Cappadocia Thespesius was a martyr, who died during the persecutions of Emperor Severus Alexander. His name is Latin for "Wondrous One".
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Megarian decree The Megarian Decree was a set of economic sanctions levied upon Megara c. 432 BC by the Athenian Empire shortly before the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. The ostensible reason for the Decree was the Megarians' supposed trespass on land sacred to Demeter (known as the Hiera Orgas), the killing of the Athenian herald who was sent to their city to reproach them, and giving shelter to slaves who had fled from Athens. In all likelihood, it was an act of revenge by the Athenians for the treacherous behaviour of the Megarians some years earlier. It may have been a deliberate provocation towards Sparta on the part of Pericles, who was the sponsor of the decree. The decree banned Megarians from harbours and marketplaces throughout the large Athenian Empire, allegedly strangling the Megarian economy. The sanctions would have also affected Megara's allies and may have been seen as a move by Athens to weaken her rivals and extend her influence. The ban strained the fragile peace between Athens and Sparta, which was allied with the strategically located Megara.
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Philip the Tetrarch Philip the Tetrarch, sometimes called Herod Philip II (Greek: Ἡρώδης Φίλιππος , "Hērōdēs Philippos") by modern writers (ruled from 4 BC until his death in AD 34) was the son of Herod the Great and his fifth wife, Cleopatra of Jerusalem. Philip II was born in ~19 BCE. He was a half-brother of Herod Antipas and Herod Archelaus; and should not be confused with Herod II, whom some writers call Herod Philip I."
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Theodorus the Atheist Theodorus the Atheist (Greek: Θεόδωρος ὁ ἄθεος ; c. 340 – c. 250 BC ), of Cyrene, was a philosopher of the Cyrenaic school. He lived in both Greece and Alexandria, before ending his days in his native city of Cyrene. As a Cyrenaic philosopher, he taught that the goal of life was to obtain joy and avoid grief, and that the former resulted from knowledge, and the latter from ignorance. But his principal claim to fame was his alleged atheism. He was usually designated by ancient writers "Atheus" (ὁ ἄθεος ), "the Atheist."
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Theodosius I Theodosius I (Latin: "Flavius Theodosius Augustus" ; 11 January 347 – 17 January 395), also known as Theodosius the Great, was Roman Emperor from AD 379 to AD 395. Theodosius was the last emperor to rule over both the eastern and the western halves of the Roman Empire. On accepting his elevation, he campaigned against Goths and other barbarians who had invaded the empire. He failed to kill, expel, or entirely subjugate them, and after the Gothic War, they established a homeland south of the Danube, in Illyricum, within the empire's borders. He fought two destructive civil wars, in which he defeated the usurpers Magnus Maximus and Eugenius at great cost to the power of the empire.