Ephesus (Greek: Έφεσσος; see also List of traditional Greek place names) was one of the great cities of the Ionian Greeks in Asia Minor, located in Lydia where the Cayster river flows into the Aegean Sea (in modern day Turkey). It was founded by colonists principally from Athens. The ruins of Ephesus are a major tourist attraction, especially for people travelling to Turkey by cruise ship via the port of Kusadasi. Ephesus - Ancient Ephesus. Ephesus is believed by many to be the Apasa (or Ab ...

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Beginning in the Roman Republic, Ephesus was the capital of proconsular Asia, which covered the western part of Asia Minor. The city bore the title of "the first and greatest metropolis of Asia." It was distinguished for the Temple of Artemis (Diana), who had her chief shrine there, for its library, and for its theatre, which would have been capable of holding 25,000 spectators. It was, like all ancient theatres, open to the sky; it was used initially for drama, but during later Roman times gladiatorial combats were also held on its stage. T ...

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Xenophon of Ephesus (fl. 2nd century–3rd century?) was a Greek writer. His surviving work is the Ephesian Tale of Anthia and Habrocomes, one of the earliest novels as well as one of the sources for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. He is not to be confused with the earlier and more famous Athenian soldier and historian, Xenophon. See also. Other ancient Greek novelists: Chariton - The Loves of Chaereas and Callirhoe Achilles Tatius - Leucippe and Cleitophon < ...

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The Council of Chalcedon was an ecumenical council that took place from October 8–November 1, 451 at Chalcedon, a city of Bithynia in Asia Minor. It is the fourth of the first seven Ecumenical Councils in Christianity, and is therefore recognized as infallible in its dogmatic definitions by the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. It repudiated the Eutychian doctrine of monophysitism, and set forth the Chalcedonian Creed, which describes the full humanity and full divinity of Jesus, the second person of the Holy Trinity.

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Athenagoras has been the name of several notable Greek individuals: Athenagoras of Ephesus, a tyrant of Ephesus around the 6th century BC Athenagoras of Athens (circa 133-190), early Christian philosopher Patriarch Athenagoras (1886-1972), Patriarch of Constantinople from 1948 to 1972 Athenagoras is also the title of a 1682 biography of Athenagoras of Athens by British theologian John Fell. Other related archives133, 1886, 190, 1972,

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Cayster River is located south of Izmir, Turkey. The Cayster generally flows westward into the Aegean Sea. The ancient city of Ephesus was once an important port on the Cayster, but with overgrazing and climate change over the centuries, sedimentation gradually filled in the inlet around the city. The coastlines moved seaward and the ruins of Ephesus are now some 5 miles inland from the coast. Other related archivesAegean Sea, Ephesus, Izmir, Turkey, port, sedimentation

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Coptic Orthodox Christianity is the indigenous form of Christianity that, according to tradition, the apostle Mark established in Egypt in the middle of the 1st century AD (approximately 42). The Church belongs to the Oriental Orthodoxy, and the see of Alexandria in Coptic Christianity has been a distinct church body since the Council of Chalcedon in 451. Her leader is the Pope of Alexandria and the Patriarch of the Holy See of Saint Mark, currently Pope Shenouda III. More than 95% of Egypt's Christians belong to the Coptic Orthodox C ...

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Heraclitus of Ephesus (Greek Ήράκλειτος Herakleitos) (about 535 - 475 BC), known as 'The Obscure,' was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Ephesus in Asia Minor. As with other pre-Socratics, his writings only survive in fragments quoted by other authors. He disagreed with Thales, Anaximander, and Pythagoras about the nature of the ultimate substance and claimed instead that everything is derived from the Greek classical element fire, rather than from air, wate ...

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Events The Nubian kingdom of Alodia is converted to Christianity, according to John of Ephesus. John of Ephesus completes his Biographies of Eastern Saints. King of Garamantes signs a peace treaty with Byzantium Births Deaths Category: 569 ...

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54 - Events. October 13 - Roman Empire emperor Claudius dies after being poisoned by Agrippina, his wife and niece. Nero succeeds Claudius as emperor of Roman Empire Patriarch Onesimus succeeds Stachys the Apostle as Patriarch of Constantinople. Judea is returned piecemeal to Agrippa I's son Marcus Julius Agrippa between 48 and 54. Paul of Tarsus begins his third mission. Apollos, a later assistant of Paul, is converted to Christianity in Ephesus Maiden ...

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65 - Events. Gospel of Matthew was probably written between 60 and this year. Gaius Calpurnius Piso conspires against Roman emperor Nero. Cestius Gallus becomes legate of Syria. Paul of Tarsus ordains Timothy as bishop of Ephesus (traditional date). 65 - Births. 65 - Deaths. April 30 - Lucan, Roman poet and philosopher Lucius Anneus Seneca, Roman philosopher, writer and statesman

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Zenodotus, Greek grammarian and critic, pupil of Philetas of Cos, was a native of Ephesus. He lived during the reigns of the first two Ptolemies, and was at the height of his reputation about 280 BC. He was the first superintendent of the library at Alexandria and the first critical editor (Sto/ottoTijs) of Homer. His colleagues in the librarianship were Alexander of Aetolia and Lycophron of Chalcis, to whom were allotted the tragic and comic writers respectively, Homer a ...

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Colossae or Colosse, a city of Phrygia, on the Lycus, which is a tributary of the Maeander. It was about 12 miles above Laodicea, and near the great road from Ephesus to the Euphrates, and was at one time of some mercantile importance, although by the first century it had dwindled greatly in size and significance. In 396 B.C., during the Persian Wars, the Persian satrap Tissaphernes was lured to Coloss ...

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The First Epistle of John is a book of the Bible New Testament. It the fourth of the catholic or "general" epistles. It was traditionally held to have been written by John the Evangelist, and probably also at Ephesus, and when the writer was in advanced age. The Epistle's content, language and conceptual style is an indication that a common authorship existed between this letter, the two other letters attributed to the Apostle John, as well as the Gospel of John. Whether the author was the Apostle John himself, someone w ...

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See also: First Epistle to the Corinthians and Third Epistle to the Corinthians The Second Epistle to the Corinthians is a book of the Bible New Testament. It is one of 4 letter from Paul to the people of Corinth, Greece. Shortly after writing his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul left Ephesus, where intense excitement had been aroused against him, the evidence of his great success, and proceeded to Macedonia. Pursuing the usual route, he reached Troas, the port of departure for Europe. Here he expected to mee ...

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Galli was the Roman name for castrated followers of the Phrygian goddess Cybele, which can be regarded as transgendered in today's terms. Cybele's Galli were similar in form to other colleges of priests in Asia Minor that ancient authors described as "eunuchs", such as the priests of Atargatis described by Apuleius and Lucian, or the galloi of the temple of Artemis at Ephesus. The first Galli arrived in Rome when the Senate officially adopted Cybele as a state goddess in 203 BC. Until t ...

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Noetus, a presbyter of the church of Asia Minor about AD 230, was a native of Smyrna, where (or perhaps in Ephesus) he became a prominent representative of the particular type of Christology now called modalistic monarchianism or patripassianism. His views, which led to his excommunication from the Asiatic Church, are known chiefly through the writings of Hippolytus, his contemporary at Rome, where he settled and had a large following. He accepted the fourth Gospel, but regarded its statements about the Logos as allegorical. His disciple Cleomenes held that God is both inv ...

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Bar Sauma refers to two individuals associated with the Church of the East. The first Bar Sauma was a teacher at the School of Edessa in the 5th century, but had to flee to Persia because of his Nestorian views. The teaching of Nestorius had been condemned in Ephesus in 431. Nestorius was a student of Theodore of Mopsuestia, who was held in very high esteem by the Assyrian Church, and so Nestorius was received well. Even the Persian kings, who were Zoroastrian and at cons ...

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Artemidorus Daldianus or Ephesius was a professional diviner and author known for an extant five-volume Greek work Oneirocritica, (English: The Interpretation of Dreams). Artemidorus was surnamed Ephesius, from Ephesus, on the west coast of Asia Minor, but was also called Daldianus, from his mother's native city, Daldis in Lycia. He lived in the second century AD. According to Artemidorus, the material for his work was gathered during lengthy travels through Greece, Italy and Asia, from divine ...

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