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Another Harvard-Cornell team made the news this week when an expedition of Harvard and Cornell archaeologists announced the discovery of an altar to the goddess Artemis in Sardis, Turkey, the ancient capital of King Croesus.
Built more than 2000 years ago during the reign of King Croesus, this altar to Artemis is the oldest religious structure in the Lydian capital.
Herostrattis has a story, but no plot, at least if we conceive of plot as progress. In the Greek legend ??? burnt down the temple of Artemis at Ephesens to gain ever-lasting fame. In Levy's retelling Max, the protagonist, sick of the "crap-heap" and the guardians of the...
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...