The identification of ruins discovered in an excavation with a definite building known to us from ancient literary sources is not always possible. For this reason the discovery in June and July 1958 of a small temple just west of Theseion Square in Athens is particularly gratifying for it can be identified with virtual certainty
s the temple of Artemis Aristoboule founded by Themistokles near his house in the deme of Melite1.