Question
Original language term required. The noblewoman Aristarche established a temple to Artemis among the Massalians, who modeled their religious images on one of these objects from Ephesus. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these wooden statues sometimes attributed to mythical artists like Smilis of Aegina, who created one for a Heraion. Iphigenia and Orestes took one of these cult statues from Tauris to the Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia.
ANSWER: xoanon (“ZOH-uh-non”) [or xoana]
[10m] Smilis allegedly created a xoanon for the Heraion of this island, where Hera was born under a Lygos tree. A ruler of this island recovered his ring from the belly of a fish, prompting Amasis to break off an alliance.
ANSWER: Samos (The second clue refers to the Ring of Polycrates.)
[10e] Pausanias claimed Smilis was a less-renowned contemporary of this figure, to whom Pausanias attributed xoana around Greece. This inventor created wings for himself and Icarus to escape Crete.
ANSWER: Daedalus
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