Erostratus

Erostratus (d.356 BC) was an obscure Ephesian, who, to immortalise his name, set fire to the temple of Ephesus on the night, as it happened, when Alexander the Great was born. The Ephesians thought to defeat his purpose by making it death to any one who named his name, but in vain, the decree itself giving wider and wider publicity to the act.

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Erpenius, Errhines, Error, Erwin, Erymanthus, Erysipelas