Herostratus burns the Temple of Artemis
He torched a world wonder for fame, so his name was banned
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Herostratus of Ephesus set fire to the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders, and confessed under torture that he wanted eternal fame. The city banned his name on pain of death, but historians recorded it anyway, and 'Herostratic fame' became a byword.
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Tradition holds that the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus burned on the very day Alexander the Great was born. Plutarch quipped that the goddess failed to save it because she was busy delivering Alexander. Share →
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Africa
- 331 BC Founding of Alexandria — 25 years later
Alive at the time
- Plato (aged 72)
- Aristotle (aged 28)
- Alexander the Great (aged 0)
- Mencius (aged 16)
- Olympias (aged 19)
- Zhuangzi (aged 13)
- Ptolemy I Soter (aged 11)