Artemis of Ephesus: The Great Mother Goddess

The Ancients

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🗓️ 23 June 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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An incredibly popular goddess, characterised in statues of her by a vest of bee hives, or are they breasts … bull scrotums? In this episode Tristan speaks to Dr Carla Ionescu about the Ephesian Artemis, the great mother goddess. They discuss the arguments behind the different interpretations of the Artemis statues, her connections to other divine female figures, and her lasting impression on the ancient city of Ephesus.

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0:00.0	It's the ancients on history hit.
0:05.4	I'm Tristan Hughes your host and in today's podcast well the ancient world was filled
0:11.2	with some incredible deities.
0:13.9	Some more strange than others and in this podcast we're going to be focusing in on one particular
0:18.9	ancient deity and this was Artemis.
0:22.6	But not to your usual Artemis, this is Artemis of Ephesus, the great mother goddess.
0:29.6	She was incredibly popular across the whole length and breadth of the ancient Mediterranean
0:33.8	world.
0:34.8	She has got some very unique characteristics on her statues that survive as you're going
0:39.9	to hear in this podcast.
0:41.7	And to talk all about what we know about the worship of this ancient divinity and what
0:45.5	we know about the Ephesian Artemis, I was delighted to be joined by one of the leading lights
0:51.5	in this field, Dr. Carla Yinescu.
0:54.6	Carla explains all from how the Ephesian Artemis came to be and this idea of fusion all the
1:00.5	way up to the time of Christianity and the link between Artemis of Ephesus and the Virgin
1:06.8	Mary.
1:08.2	So that further ado, here's Carla.
1:11.2	Carla, it is wonderful to have you on the podcast.
1:16.7	Thank you, thank you for having me, I'm very excited.
1:20.2	Now no problem at all, this is an interesting topic.
1:23.1	Artemis of Ephesus, a story of bees, breasts and a goddess that was incredibly popular across
1:29.4	the ancient Mediterranean.
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