One of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, the Temple of Artemis stood a mile and a half outside Ephesus — and was far more than a sanctuary. It was the safest bank in the Aegean, holding deposits for private citizens, cities and kings; a place of asylum; and the engine of a whole trade in silver shrines and amulets sold to spring pilgrims. To be a craftsman in Ephesus was, one way or another, to work in its shadow.
A modest, respectable house in the streets above the State Agora — not one of the painted terrace houses of…
Patmos is not the bare prison rock of legend. It is a small, populated Aegean island south-west of Miletus…
A small scroll-copyist's workshop in the craftsman quarter of Ephesus, with the living rooms above it and an…
The seven cities of Roman Asia were strung along a real road — the postal circuit that ran Ephesus, Smyrna…
The Christians of Ephesus had no church building. They met in houses — dining-room gatherings of a dozen or…
The largest theatre in the Roman world at the time: some twenty-five thousand seats carved into the hillside…