Hermogenes of Priene (240–200 BCE)

Born 240 BCE, died 200 BCE.

Hermogenes of Priene (late 3rd - early 2nd century BC) was a Hellenistic Greek architect, best known for designing a temple of Artemis Leukophryene (Artemision) at Magnesia in Lydia, an Ionian colony on the banks of the Maeander river in Anatolia.

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