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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 ...
The Ionian Revolt was triggered by the dissatisfaction of the Greek cities of Asia Minor with the tyrants appointed by Persia to rule them. In 499 BC, the then-tyrant of Miletus, Aristagoras, launched a joint expedition with the Persian satrap Artaphernes to conquer Naxos, in an attempt to bolster his position in Miletus.
Ephesus appears to have subsequently cultivated a close relationship with the Persian Empire; during the suppression of the Ionian revolt by Darius the Great in 494 BC, Ephesus was spared and emerged as the dominant Greek city in Ionia. [1] Miletus, the home to the previous philosophers, was captured and sacked. [2]
The Temple of Artemis or Artemision (Greek: Ἀρτεμίσιον; Turkish: Artemis Tapınağı), also known as the Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to an ancient, localised form of the goddess Artemis (equated with the Roman goddess Diana). It was located in Ephesus (near the modern town of Selçuk in present-day Turkey).
Mycenaean palatial states, or centrally organized palace-operating polities, are recorded in ancient Greek literature and mythology (e.g., Iliad, Catalogue of Ships) and confirmed by discoveries made by modern archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann. Each Mycenaean kingdom was governed from the palace, which exercised control over most, if ...
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.
Herostratus (Ancient Greek: Ἡρόστρατος) was a 4th-century BC Greek, accused of seeking notoriety as an arsonist by destroying the second Temple of Artemis in Ephesus (on the outskirts of present-day Selçuk), one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.