In ancient antiquity, Ephesus was a very diverse and prosperous city. City life and the workplace were always booming. Education was always at an all-time high. Out of Ephesus came great philosophers, architects, painters, musicians and doctors. Ephesus was known as being a center for education, social matters, and religion. The Ephesians attributed all of this to one being, as shown by this quote: “In such prosperous times, it was not difficult for its citizens …showed first 75 words of 1738 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1738 total…F. Price. Price has his own reason for Artemis surviving through the changing times. He states that Artemis lived on because of the fact that she was: “…honored in her own city which she has made more famous than all other cities through her own divinity, but also by Greeks and foreigners; everywhere shrines and sanctuaries of her have been dedicated, temples founded and altars erected to her because of her vivid manifestations.” (Price, 130-1)