Metagenes
Sign in to savethumb | right | alt=Side view of a reconstructed model of the Metagenes method for moving heavy stones. Ancient Beit Shean, Scythopolis | Side view of a reconstructed model of the Metagenes method for moving heavy stones. Ancient Beit Shean, Scythopolis Metagenes () was a man in ancient Crete, son of the Greek Cretan architect Chersiphron, and was also an architect himself.
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- Born
- 550 BCE
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- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Greece
- Place of birth
- Knossos
- Father
- Chersiphron
- Occupation
- inventor
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
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thumb | right | alt=Side view of a reconstructed model of the Metagenes method for moving heavy stones. Ancient Beit Shean, Scythopolis | Side view of a reconstructed model of the Metagenes method for moving heavy stones. Ancient Beit Shean, Scythopolis 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.