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Ephesus (/ ˈ ɛ f ɪ s ə s /; [1] [2] Ancient Greek: Ἔφεσος, romanized: Éphesos; Turkish: Efes; may ultimately derive from Hittite: 𒀀𒉺𒊭, romanized: Apaša) was a city in Ancient Greece [3] [4] on the coast of Ionia, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) southwest of present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey.
590 Siege of Ephesus is abandoned, Lydia annexes Smyrna and Median-Lydian war starts; 590 Muorica (Renamed Modica) is annexed by Syracuse; 590 Sappho, Greek poet, flourishes on island of Lesbos. 589 Klazomenai is sieged by Lydia; 588 Poseidonia is founded by Sybaris; 587 Siege of Klazomenai is abandoned by Lydia; 586 Death of Lycophron tyrant ...
As his nickname suggests, he is said to have either been born or flourished in Ephesus, though the exact period of antiquity remains unspecified. He wrote the Golden Book, fragments of which have been preserved by Athenaeus, dealing with the nymph Elichrysis and the flower of the same name (Helichrysum). [1]
In Greek and Roman mythology, Meliboea (/ ˌ m ɛ l ɪ ˈ b iː ə /; Ancient Greek: Μελίβοια, romanized: Melíboia, lit. 'honey cattle') is a young woman from Ephesus who wished to marry her lover Alexis against her parents' wishes. The couple was only able to be united through divine intervention.
Tom Holt, Walled Orchard series Goatsong: A Novel of Ancient Athens (1989) The Walled Orchard (1991) John Galen Howard, Pheidias (1929) Noel Langley, Nymph in Clover (1948) Edward Leatham, Charmione: A Tale of the Great Athenian Revolution (1859) Jon Edward Martin, Shades of Artemis (2004) Iona McGregor, The Snake and the Olive (1974)
— Contained a previously unknown passage (the great lacuna, comprising chapters 12 to 17 of the first book), after the discovery of MS. F (above). Courier, Paul Louis (1829). Longi Pastoralia. Paris. — First complete Greek text of Daphnis and Chloe, edited by P.-L. Courier, with a Latin translation by G. R. Ludwig de Sinner. Seiler ...
Mythos is a book written by British author Stephen Fry, published in 2017.It is a retelling of a number of ancient Greek myths selected by Fry. It was followed by Fry's 2018 book Heroes, a retelling of myths about Greek heroes, [1] as well as a play titled Mythos: A Trilogy, [2] which premiered at the Shaw Festival in Ontario, Canada, in 2018 [3] and was set to tour the UK starting in August 2019.
Ibn al-Nadim and Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa both preserve a similar list of books by Rufus of Ephesus, though Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa reports more titles than Ibn al-Nadim. Most of his works have been lost. His surviving works include: [8] [9] On the Names of the Parts of the Human Body; On Diseases of the Bladder and Kidneys (1977 CMG Greek text)