The seven cities of Roman Asia were strung along a real road — the postal circuit that ran Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea, in exactly the order Revelation names them. Some 475 kilometres, seventeen to nineteen walking days, coast to hill country to the Lycus valley. A letter written for all seven had to be carried to all seven, on foot, by somebody.
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…
One of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, the Temple of Artemis stood a mile and a half outside Ephesus…
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…