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- ↑ Callimachus, Iambi Fragment 6a (trans. Trypanis)
- ↑ Callimachus, Iambi Fragment 6b (from Scholiast on Aristophanes' Birds 873)
- ↑ Strabo, Geography 10. 1. 10 (trans. Jones)
- ↑ Pausanias, Description of Greece 1. 31. 5 (trans. Jones)
- ↑ Aelian, On Animals 12. 34 (trans. Scholfield)
- ↑ "Lost temple of Artemis found on Greek island of Euboea".
- ↑ Archaeologists Dig Up The Lost Temple Of Artemis ... - IFLScience