Metagenes

Metagenes () was a man in ancient Crete, son of the Greek Cretan architect Chersiphron, and was also an architect himself.

He was co-architect, along with his father, of the construction of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). "Metagenes" .

The architect's name is recalled in Vitruvius's De architectura.Vitruvius, De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture), Book III, Chapter II.

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