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The seven cities of Roman Asia as they actually stood — the harbours and theatres, the guilds and law-courts, the household lamps — and the ordinary people keeping an old faith alight while the first fervour cools.
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Philaretos's sister, and the reason the household stands up. Kira has kept the accounts since she was fifteen, when their father…
The overseer's wife, and the warm centre of the house. Married thirty years, she keeps a home in the streets above the State…
Senior overseer of the Ephesian church: a man in his sixties who has spent thirty years keeping order in a scattered community…
A scroll-copyist in the craftsman quarter of Ephesus, and a specialist in the Ephesia grammata — the famous spell-scrolls the…
Patmos is not the bare prison rock of legend. It is a small, populated Aegean island south-west of Miletus, with villages…
One of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, the Temple of Artemis stood a mile and a half outside Ephesus — and was far more…
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