Temple of Artemis at Ephesus - The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World | Part 4

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  • One location, three temples, and many, many breasts. You guessed it, our 4th wonder of the ancient world is the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus! Let’s get into it.
    Welcome to episode 4 of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Series! Who actually came up with this list, and why is it only possible to visit one of them today? Did the rest of the wonders even exist? Let's find out.
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    The temple of Artemis, also known as the Temple of Diana because the Romans liked to take the Greek Gods and just change their names for their own religion, AND also known as the Artemision which sounds like the coolest transformer of the bunch, was located in the Ephesus, near the modern town of Selcuk in present day Turkiye. Archaeological evidence shows that there were not 1, not 2, but 3 different temples built on this site, as early as the Bronze age around the 8th century BCE, with the final one being destroyed for good in 401 CE. So we’ve got over 1,000 years of worship going on at this one place.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 62

  • @ggwhale
    @ggwhale 6 місяців тому +1

    Thank you for the great analysis of this ancient location. Very well done.

  • @Enyavar1
    @Enyavar1 Рік тому +3

    This is great: I hadn't realized yet that this wasn't a temple of _Artemis_ , but a temple of the _Lady of Ephesus a.k.a. Artemis_ which now seems a pretty important distinction for me.

  • @sapientisessevolo4364
    @sapientisessevolo4364 Рік тому +14

    I guess you could say that when Ephesus turned christian Artemis became Artemissed

  • @christopherwaldrop5293
    @christopherwaldrop5293 Рік тому +5

    I've read so much about the seven wonders but I love how much I'm still learning from this series.

    • @DigItWithRaven
      @DigItWithRaven  Рік тому +2

      So glad I can add some more info for you! 😃

  • @TurquoiseInk
    @TurquoiseInk Рік тому +1

    I don't remember where I saw this, but I remember a discussion of Artemis's "breasts" being beehives. There were leather beehives made by beekeepers which would be full of honey and bee wax

  • @Davlavi
    @Davlavi Рік тому +1

    Nice glade you did this one.

  • @scottmayhew2227
    @scottmayhew2227 Рік тому +1

    I like her presentations.

  • @peterdore2572
    @peterdore2572 Рік тому +7

    I love this series

  • @thelifeandtimesofjames4273
    @thelifeandtimesofjames4273 6 місяців тому

    Superb video as always.

  • @johnmccaa3038
    @johnmccaa3038 18 днів тому

    excellent video.... thank you

  • @grindsaur
    @grindsaur Рік тому +5

    Second temple: sinks into the silt.
    Ephesians: “Let’s rebuild it even larger, taller and heavier!”…

    • @grindsaur
      @grindsaur Рік тому +3

      Also: there’s no way you’re convincing me that that goddess is not Shub-Niggurath 😅
      Ïa! Ïa! The Goat with a Thousand Young!

    • @DigItWithRaven
      @DigItWithRaven  Рік тому +3

      😂 so much for physics!

  • @jrodriguez1374
    @jrodriguez1374 Рік тому +4

    Really appreciate this series, raven!

  • @jonathanaarhus224
    @jonathanaarhus224 9 місяців тому +1

    The fact that the cult of Artemis was involved in the amber trade may have had something to do with the fact that Tacitus Identified the most important Germanic goddess (possibly Freyja) with Isis. Basically all Amber came from Northerm Europe.

  • @AtheistNihilist
    @AtheistNihilist 11 місяців тому +1

    just discovered your channel through this video. instantly subscribed. very learned analysis about a very interesting topic. i'm going to watch your entire 7 wonders series and your other content too. thanks!

    • @DigItWithRaven
      @DigItWithRaven  11 місяців тому +1

      Wow thanks so much! The remaining wonders videos will be out soon for you ☺️

  • @saskiacowan8962
    @saskiacowan8962 Рік тому +1

    I’m learning so much from this series, thank you Raven

  • @ionfyr1781
    @ionfyr1781 Рік тому +1

    I usually like your videos, but I found this one quite interesting, especially the locations of the temple being in a flood plain, and that being the important part, not the building itself.
    I first became intrigued by Artemis when I saw the eidolon in the garden of Villa d'Este, with fountains spirting everywhere. Very NOT Roman. The breast thing you mentioned--about the representative light/dark depictions was illuminating: in that, I always interpretted them as breasts. Your mention of them as not being black like the hands and face in the video forced me to rethink my interpretation. Now...Clearly, they are not intended as breasts, as they have been for a very long time.
    Thank you, Raven. Your channel is awesome.

  • @InternetDarkLord
    @InternetDarkLord Рік тому +3

    12:35 Cowboys never let anything go to waste. After castrating bulls, they cooked the testicles with the branding iron and ate them. If you ever see "Rocky Mountain Oysters" on an American menu, people still eat them today.

  • @jamesonstalanthasyu
    @jamesonstalanthasyu Рік тому

    I like how you had a picture of a colorful temple of artemis. They had crazy painting palletes.

  • @davidfiarman5954
    @davidfiarman5954 Рік тому

    Welcome back Raven! Good to see you making content again. Love this series!

  • @jerrycratsenberg989
    @jerrycratsenberg989 Рік тому

    Wow! Whay a fun historical examination of the "wonders". I knew none of this before your presentation here. You are lovely and I want your jacket!

  • @hypercomms2001
    @hypercomms2001 5 місяців тому

    Having been there... it is not actually at Ephesus... but at Selcuk... and so was "The Australian Carpet Shop"... when I kitched hiked there in 1987......

  • @bobsebbo
    @bobsebbo Рік тому +1

    Too cool, keep em' coming. Thanks.

    • @DigItWithRaven
      @DigItWithRaven  Рік тому +2

      Thanks! Working on the next ones as we speak

  • @3ekaust
    @3ekaust Рік тому +1

    Great video❤

  • @Danetto
    @Danetto Рік тому

    awesome. i think u are one of the best youtubers...

  • @M.M.83-U
    @M.M.83-U Рік тому +1

    Nice video
    2:20 some editing problem? VIII c. BC is not Bronze Age, not in the Mediterranean at least.

    • @DigItWithRaven
      @DigItWithRaven  Рік тому +2

      Dates back to the bronze age, destroyed around the 7th-8th c. BCE. Thanks for bringing this to my attention! Edit error that I missed in my final fact check. I've corrected it in a pinned comment :)

  • @tripbreaker
    @tripbreaker Рік тому +1

    So... this had absolutely had nothing to do with Wonder Woman? Should I get oddly upset about this fact and start lashing out? Kidding. Thanks for the info as usual!

  • @Dreska_
    @Dreska_ Рік тому +3

    Remember to upvote people!

  • @alexisC2070
    @alexisC2070 Рік тому

    Hi Raven, very interesting videos you make! Is there any information on how the Greeks chose the location of their temple? What was the criteria? I suppose it wasn't random... perhaps you can do a video about that.

  • @barbarossarotbart
    @barbarossarotbart Рік тому

    I've heard about a theory that the objects on the Ephesian Artemis are the final segment of the thoraces of bees. I've also heard that the remains of an apiary had been found close to the temple.

  • @welcometonebalia
    @welcometonebalia Рік тому +1

    Thank you.

  • @TeethToothman
    @TeethToothman Рік тому

    ❤❤❤

  • @marcuscarpenter4885
    @marcuscarpenter4885 Рік тому +1

    It seems strange to call something from 8th BCE, Bronze Age. What am I missing here?

    • @DigItWithRaven
      @DigItWithRaven  Рік тому +6

      Dates back to the bronze age, destroyed around the 7th-8th c. BCE. Thanks for bringing this to my attention! Edit error that I missed in my final fact check. I've corrected it in a pinned comment :)

  • @Dr.KurtAffair
    @Dr.KurtAffair Рік тому

    Sockrates - hosier to the elite of ancient Greece?

  • @thhseeking
    @thhseeking Рік тому

    I'm curious, I've seen in a lot of places people have started calling Turkey "Turkiye" in English. Why the change?

  • @jasoncuculo7035
    @jasoncuculo7035 Рік тому

    8th century BCE is not the Bronze Age it us the Archaic Greek Iron Age

  • @benchilders571
    @benchilders571 Рік тому

    8th Century BC is not the Bronze Age for Anatolia. Not even close. Otherwise pretty good video

    • @DigItWithRaven
      @DigItWithRaven  Рік тому +1

      Dates back to the bronze age, destroyed around the 7th-8th c. BCE. Thanks for bringing this to my attention! Edit error that I missed in my final fact check. I've corrected it in a pinned comment :)

  • @classicslover
    @classicslover Рік тому

    "The coolest of all the Transformers". Yep. = ) Now Raven...be honest...How many times did episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess run through your mind while creating this one? You know? Since Xena killed Artemis after Artemis shot arrows at Xena, and Xena caught them, and threw them back at her? And assuming a non-bottomless pit...one of the temples sinking would have helped stabilize the next one, somewhat. So they never determined what was deemed so sacred about the location itself? Or did I miss that?

    • @DigItWithRaven
      @DigItWithRaven  Рік тому +2

      I don't remember that episode of Xena!! Gosh your memory is fantastic. Nothing in particular screamed 'sacred' for the archaeologists or the ancient writers that I've seen, so I'm assuming just your regular run of the mill 'this hill is the best hill' spirituality? Probably something that carried over through oral history in prehistory

    • @classicslover
      @classicslover Рік тому

      @@DigItWithRaven Sometimes my memory is fantastic...sometimes there are clips on UA-cam which I may or may not click on from time to time. = ) But that one does stick. because of the whole "catching the arrows then throwing them and killing someone". And the location...I see! I guess it could also have been "This temple is sacred!" (Temple falls) "Well, that's okay. It was really the LAND that was sacred."

    • @thhseeking
      @thhseeking Рік тому +1

      "Everyone said I was daft to build a castle in a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank..."

    • @classicslover
      @classicslover Рік тому +1

      @@thhseeking "But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England." = ) Was HOPING someone was going to make the Monty Python and the Holy Grail connection! Perhaps the writers drew inspiration from The Temple of Artemis?

    • @thhseeking
      @thhseeking Рік тому +1

      @@classicslover My mind works in mysterious ways :P

  • @The.panthera.
    @The.panthera. 5 місяців тому

    No way a fire can destroy the worlds largest marble temple 😂 it was probably a global cataclysm far back in time than why we're being told

  • @TWOCOWS1
    @TWOCOWS1 11 місяців тому

    love your presentation style. the info is very relevant too, as is ur humor. Fab. (just pls no more CE, BCB, ACBC, CDD , blah blah for date). itz so distracting. just use a calendar you like, but dont deface and dishonor the christian calendar and faith)