Some remains of the splendor of this pagan temple are still doing architectural duty. The great dome of the beautiful Byzantine church of Santa Sophia in Constantinople, now a Turkish mosque, is supported by columns of green jasper, brought from the Ephesian temple by the Roman Emperor Justinian, and two of the pillars in the cathedral at Pisa are also from the same source. There is some confusion as to the works of art and decorations associated respectively with the two temples just described which it would be vain to attempt to clear up, believing that it matters but little, inasmuch as it is not likely that Herostratus could have destroyed completely the first temple, and that the services of Dinocrates were engaged more in the line of making good the damage done than in erecting an entirely new edifice. The upper colonnades of Corinthian columns, however, which Mr. Wood shows as appearing in the interior of the temple, are clearly the work of Dinocrates. Demetrius, the priest of Diana, and his associates, Peonius and Daphnis, the three architects who completed the first Artemesian temple, having flourished over two hundred years after the foundation of that structure was laid, are not, of course, to be classed among the earlier of the Grecian architects, and, properly, should not be treated under this heading; but as they are all grouped together in the erection of another great Asiatic-Greek temple, and are not further met with, it may be just as well to add what there is in respect to them at this time. The temple referred to was that dedicated to Apollo in the Ionian city of Miletus, not far distant from the scene of the joint labors of these architects at Ephesus. Its order was also Ionic, and although not as large as that to Artemis, it could have been very little, if any, inferior to it in columnar effect and general impressive beauty, if not grandeur. It was three hundred and two feet in length by one hundred and sixty-four feet in width, and, like the temple at Ephesus, was surrounded by double rows of columns, each column, however, being sixty-three feet in height. Indeed, Strabo, the celebrated Roman traveller and geographer, who visited the ruins of the temple during the first century before the Christian era, testifies that “it is the greatest of all temples,” and adds that it remained without a roof “in consequence of its bigness”; but this allusion to its roofless condition is probably due to the fact that the building was never wholly completed. Pausanias also gives it high praise, and speaks of it as one of the wonders of Ionia, and Vitruvius numbers it “as one of the four temples which had raised their architects to the summit of renown”[2]—a renown, it would seem, that has been very much begrudged them, as the literature of their time furnishes practically no data in regard to them personally, and what estimate can be formed of them is wholly based upon the importance of their works.