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Ancient and modern

Lessons from the Greeks on rebuilding Notre Dame

4 May 2019

9:00 AM

4 May 2019

9:00 AM

As soon as the blaze that nearly brought down Notre Dame was extinguished, two questions were asked: how did it catch fire? And how will it be rebuilt? So too with a famous Greek temple.

In 560 bc in Ephesus on the west coast of modern Turkey was built a massive temple to Artemis (Roman Diana), the largest building we know of from the Greek world and the first to be constructed out of marble.

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