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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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......
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 :)
Remember that the Greeks said all their gods came from the east. All the famous Greek and Roman gods are "copies" of Mesopotamian gods. Akkadian, Sumerian, Assyrian, and Babylonian. I enjoy all of your videos Raven. And Im with Stephanie Dalley. The Hanging Gardens were in Nineveh not Babylon.
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!
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.
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.
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 :)
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 :)
"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?
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
@@DigItWithRaven Sometimes my memory is fantastic...sometimes there are clips on RU-vid 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 "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?
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)
