Temple of Artemis

American  

noun

1. the temple at Ephesus dedicated to Artemis.

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Temple of Artemis British  

noun

1. the large temple at Ephesus, on the W coast of Asia Minor: one of the Seven Wonders of the World

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Example Sentences

The city’s now-vanished Temple of Artemis was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.

From Seattle Times • May 1, 2015

To the south, near Izmir, tour guides jockey for position at the ruins of Ephesus, where the main attraction is the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Ulrichs has discovered the site of the famous Temple of Artemis or Diana, where Agamemnon was on the point of sacrificing his daughter Iphigeneia, before the departure of the Greek fleet for Troy."

From Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca Adapted from the Third Book of the Primary Schools of Athens, Greece by Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna)

Hush! the bee-wardens are here: they will quickly the Temple of Artemis open.

From The Frogs by Aristophanes

For this picture, which was placed in the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, he is reported, though not on very good authority, to have received twenty talents in gold coin.

From A History of Greek Art by Tarbell, Frank Bigelow