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===Temple of Artemis===
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[[File:West Pediment from the Temple of Artemis in Corfu.jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|The full pediment of the temple of Artemis]]

The Temple of Artemis is an [[Archaic Greece|Archaic]] [[Greek temple]] in Corfu, built in around 580 BC in the ancient city of [[Korkyra (polis)|Korkyra]] (or Corcyra), in what is known today as the suburb of Garitsa. The temple was dedicated to [[Artemis]]. It is known as the first [[Doric order|Doric]] temple exclusively built with [[limestone|stone]].<ref name="Darling"/> It is also considered the first building to have incorporated all of the elements of the [[Doric order|Doric architectural style]].<ref name=Excerpt>{{harvnb|Cruickshank|2000|p=18}}: "The island of Corfu, to the northwest of present-day Greece, off the coast of Albania, was an early colony of the city of Corinth and was under Corinthian control when its Temple of Artemis was constructed. A milestone in Greek architecture, this was the first building that was truly Doric. Many if not all of its Doric characteristics had appeared in earlier structures but here they were used for the first time as an ensemble."</ref> Very few Greek temple [[relief]]s from the Archaic period have survived, and the large fragments of the group from the [[pediment]] are the earliest significant survivals.

The temple was a [[peripteral]]–styled building with a [[pseudodipteral]] configuration. Its perimeter was rectangular, with width of {{cvt|23.46|m}} and length {{cvt|49|m}} with an eastward orientation so that light could enter the interior of the temple at sunrise.<ref name="Darling"/> It was one of the largest temples of its time.<ref name="Ancient Cities">{{harvnb|Gates|2003|pp=211–213}}.</ref>

The [[Metope (architecture)|metope]] of the temple was probably decorated, since remnants of reliefs featuring [[Achilles]] and [[Memnon (mythology)|Memnon]] were found in the ancient ruins.<ref name="Darling">{{harvnb|Darling|2004|pp=184–186}}.</ref> The temple has been described as a milestone of [[Ancient Greek architecture]] and one of 150 [[masterpiece]]s of [[Western world|Western]] [[architecture]].<ref name=Excerpt/> The Corfu temple architecture may have influenced the design of an archaic [[sanctuary]] structure found at the [[Sant'Omobono Area|Sant'Omobono archaeological site]] in [[Rome]], dating from the time of the [[Etruscans]], which incorporates similar design elements.<ref name="A Companion to Archaic Greece">{{harvnb|Houby-Nielsen|2013|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=w6ZONBz1DKkC&pg=PA203 203]}}.</ref> If still in use by the 4th-century, the temple would have been closed during the [[persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire]], when the Christian Emperors issued edicts prohibiting non-Christian worship. [[Kaiser Wilhelm II]], while vacationing at his summer palace of Achilleion in Corfu and while Europe was preparing for war, was involved in excavations at the site of the ancient temple.