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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.
Pherecydes' cosmogony forms a bridge between the mythological thought of Hesiod and pre-Socratic Greek philosophy; Aristotle considered him one of the earliest thinkers to abandon traditional mythology in order to arrive at a systematic explanation of the world, although Plutarch, as well as many other writers, still gave him the title of ...
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 ...
'nightingale') was in Greek mythology, the daughter of Pandareus of Ephesus. [1] According to Homer , she was the wife of Zethus , and the mother of Itylus . [ 2 ] Aëdon features in two different stories, one set in Thebes and one set in Western Asia Minor , both of which contain filicide and explain the origin of the nightingale , a bird in ...
Greek text available at Perseus Digital Library. John Tzetzes, Book of Histories, Book II-IV translated by Gary Berkowitz from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826. Online version at theio.com; Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge ...
The Greek novel as a genre began in the first century CE, and flourished in the first four centuries; it is thus a product of the Roman Empire. The exact relationship between the Greek novel and the Latin novels of Petronius and Apuleius is debated, but both Roman writers are thought by most scholars to have been aware of and to some extent ...
Undated and without place or printer. The book carries an interlinear Latin prose translation together with the Greek text on one page and on the opposite one a metrical Latin translation. [1] The first edition with a date is the 1486 edition by Leonicus Cretensis. 1478 [2]-1479 [3] Aesopus, Fabulae [4] [2] B. & J. A. de Honate [4] Milan [4]
Mark of Ephesus (Greek: Μάρκος ὁ Ἐφέσιος, born Manuel Eugenikos) was a hesychast theologian of the late Palaiologan period of the Byzantine Empire who became famous for his rejection of the Council of Ferrara–Florence (1438–1439).