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The history reveals the two different stories of goddess Artemis, which from time to time mistakenly is considered to be same worshiping goddess. However, The Ephesus Goddess Artemis, sometimes called Diana was a goddess of fertility and was often pictured as draped with eggs, or multiple breasts, symbols of fertility, from her waist to her shoulders, whereas The Greek Artemis is the goddess of the hunt. That shrine of goddess was first built in 800 B.C. but then it was destroyed and rebuilt several times over the next few hundred years. By 600 B.C., the city of Ephesus had become a major port of trade and an architect named Chersiphron was engaged to build a new large temple. He designed it with high stone columns. Though, this temple didn’t last long. In 550 B.C. King Croesus of Lydia conquered Ephesus and the other Greek cities of Asia Minor. During the fighting, the temple was destroyed. Croesus proved himself a gracious winner, though, by contributing generously to the building of a new temple. This was next to the last of the great temples to Artemis in Ephesus and it dwarfed those that had come before.

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