Dedicated around AD 89 to the Flavian emperors, the Temple of the Sebastoi stood on the upper terrace of Ephesus and made the city twice neokoros — twice temple-keeper — its proudest civic distinction. With the honour came the festivals: sacrifices, loyalty oaths, games and banquets, organised across the whole province. For most Ephesians this was not tyranny at all. It was simply what a loyal city did.
A modest, respectable house in the streets above the State Agora — not one of the painted terrace houses of…
Patmos is not the bare prison rock of legend. It is a small, populated Aegean island south-west of Miletus…
A small scroll-copyist's workshop in the craftsman quarter of Ephesus, with the living rooms above it and an…
One of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, the Temple of Artemis stood a mile and a half outside Ephesus…
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The Christians of Ephesus had no church building. They met in houses — dining-room gatherings of a dozen or…