herostratus in A Sentence

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    July 21, in the 356 BC, the temple was burned by Herostratus.

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    Enter Herostratus- a guy so desperate for fame he would do anything to achieve it.

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    When the people of Ephesus saw the smoking ruins of the temple, Herostratus made certain they knew that he was the guy responsible.

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    This meant that Herostratus' name was stricken from all official records, and the mention of his name was forbidden, either by word or in writing, on pain of death.

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    But the jokes on the Greek lawmakers because his name was Herostratus, and in 2017, he has a pretty solid Wikipedia page, which is pretty much the secret to immortality.

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    Herostratus did not try to evade capture for his heinous act, rather he openly bragged about his crime, and his name became synonymous with a certain type of fame-seeker still very prevalent today.

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    On July 21, 356 B.C.E., a man named Herostratus deliberately set fire to the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus in modern-day Turkey, a beloved architectural marvel that was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

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    In spite of the risk, Herostratus' name and heinous act of arson was recorded by the historian Theopompus, and his name lived on as a term to describe someone who commits a crime for the sole purpose of the resulting notoriety.

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