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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.
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)
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)
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 ...
Set in the Greek city of Ephesus, The Comedy of Errors tells the story of two sets of identical twins who were accidentally separated at birth. Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant, Dromio of Syracuse, arrive in Ephesus, which turns out to be the home of their twin brothers, Antipholus of Ephesus and his servant, Dromio of Ephesus.
— 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 ...
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 ...
The Greek poet Hesiod (between 750 and 650 BC) outlined his Five Ages in his poem Works and Days (lines 109–201). His list is: Golden Age – The Golden Age is the only age that falls within the rule of Cronus. Created by the immortals who live on Olympus, these humans were said to live among the gods and freely mingled with them.