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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.
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).
Façade of the Library of Celsus at sunset. The Library of Celsus (Greek: Βιβλιοθήκη του Κέλσου) is an ancient Roman building in Ephesus, Anatolia, today located near the modern town of Selçuk, in the İzmir Province of western Turkey.
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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 ...
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.
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)
Ephorus' magnum opus was a set of 29 books recounting a universal history.The whole work, edited by his son Demophilus—who added a 30th book—contained a summary description of the Sacred Wars, along with other narratives from the days of the Heraclids up until the taking of Perinthus in 340 BC by Philip of Macedon, covering a time span of more than seven hundred years.