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Idea scribbles. Apollo teaching young Delphi how to play the lyre, and Artemis teaching young Ephesus how to shoot an arrow.

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2020-12-06

"To dream about eating a book is a good thing for educated people, for sophists, and for all those who earn their living discoursing about books."

Artemidorus of Ephesus, Oneirocritica (Interpretation of Dreams), 130 AD

(My copy is in the mail.)

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2020-07-31

The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus in lockdown...

Cod. Bodmer 127; Vitae sanctorum (Passionale); monastery of Weissenau, Germany; 12th century; f.125v (https://t.co/LhMZ6CVBhU)

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2020-06-21

2/2 The Temple of Diana at Ephesus, from the series of The Seven Wonders of the World, painted by Wilhelm Schubert van Ehrenberg. It's his day.

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2020-05-12

Ancient Coin of the Day: A Fourth-century tetradrachm of Ephesus; the Obverse shows the typical bee emblem of Ephesus (Melissa), the Reverse the palm and stag, as well as a magistrate's name (Zoilos).

Image: American Numismatic Society (1944.100.46012)

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2020-04-04

"Romeo and Juliet" borrows from the story of "Pyramus and Thisbe" from Ovid's Metamorphoses, and "The Ephesiaca of Xenophon and Ephesus", right down to the parental rivalry, the belief that one of the lovers is dead, and the use of a sleep potion

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2020-02-13

Two first century frescoes from the ancient city of Ephesus In the second pic a pigeon seems to hold a rose in its beak.

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2020-01-13

Bust of a prince with an “Augustus” haircut - perhaps one of his grandsons Gaius or Lucius Caesar, similar to the Ara Pacis busts in From Ephesus museum

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2020-01-03

goddess Arete the personification of moral virtue and excellence in all one does.
From the Library of Celsus, Ephesus,

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2020-01-01

2 statue of Artemis of Ephesus in the museum of Seljuk As Lady of the Animals her body is covered in representations of lions, goats, griffins, leopards and bulls testicles.

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2019-10-01

A rather belated recognition of Empress Livia’s death from a bust in Ephesus museum and the inscription above the Mazeus and Mithradates gate in Ephesus

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2019-09-30

The bust of emperor Marcus Aurelius from the Ephesus museum surely one of the finest sculptures ever produced

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2019-09-30

John of Ephesus in 580’s wrote that Slavs were part of the seventh climate, in which the sun rarely shone. Hence, their blonde hair, brutish character & rude ways of life. On the other hand, God was on their side punishing the Byzantines as persecutors of the Monophysites.

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2019-05-19

Illustration by y for , article about the image of the Madonna - inspired from the statue of Artemis of Ephesus

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2019-05-18

'A hidden connection
Is stronger than
An obvious one'
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Heraclitus of Ephesus


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2019-04-14

ARTEMEEZ - Rock/Ice - The Lunar Pokemon

Sixth wonder legendary based on the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, more info here https://t.co/8a2R2fUPdL

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2018-03-16

"If you do not hope the unexpected, you will not find it." Heraclitus of Ephesus (535 – 475) BC.

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2017-07-01