Written for readers who have finished Book 1.
A modest, respectable house in the streets above the State Agora — not one of the painted terrace houses of the rich, but a comfortable place with a courtyard at its heart, water off the city's aqueduct, and olive-oil lamps for the evening. The overseer of the Ephesian assembly works here, at a table in the courtyard, and half the business of a whole scattered community passes across it.
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 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…