Word: artemision
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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For the past six years, Doxiadis has invited 30 or so distinguished architects, businessmen, politicians and academics to a week-long superseminar on environment problems aboard a chartered Aegean cruise ship. Most expenses are paid by Doxiadis-who may or may not be a millionaire-and assorted wealthy friends. The...
While the rich are always notoriously short of ready cash, the Guests of late have set some kind of record. To keep up with an avalanche of bills (the stables alone can cost $200,000 a year), in 1959 he sold his mother's Palm Beach house, Villa Artemis...
* The others: the pyramids of Egypt, the gardens of Semiramis at Babylon, the statue of the Olympian Zeus by Phidias, the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes and the Pharos (lighthouse) at Alexandria. In some listings, the Walls of Babylon are substituted for...
Sir: Quoted below is a section from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which will correct the misconception of Artemis of Ephesus you printed in a caption [Dec. 13]. "The usual figure of the Ephesian Artemis, which was said in the first instance to have fallen from heaven, is in the form of...
> According to Alfons Wotschitzky, director of the Archaeological Institute of the University of Innsbruck, "The egglike objects just above [Artemis'] waist, formerly considered as multiple female breasts, are now correctly interpreted as ostrich eggs decorating her garment. Ostrich eggs, as a symbol of fertility, may still be found today...