Written for readers who have finished Book 1.
A small scroll-copyist's workshop in the craftsman quarter of Ephesus, with the living rooms above it and an inner stair between. One high, narrow window keeps the street's dust off the bench and lets the morning in over a working man's shoulder. It smells of dry papyrus, iron-bite ink and the cedar oil brushed on finished scrolls to keep the worm out — and under all of it, the harbour, a city breathing in ships.
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…
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…