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Chersiphron

6th century BCE · 6th century BCE

Chersiphron of Knossos was a Cretan architect of the sixth century BCE who, with his son Metagenes, designed and began the archaic Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the first great marble temples of the Ionic order. Vitruvius records the devices they invented to haul its huge column shafts from the quarry, and their treatise on the temple was known in antiquity.

Chersiphron
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Chersiphron. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/chersiphron
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