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...pairs have not seen each other since infancy, when a shipwreck separated the Syracusan pair and their father Egeon (Wade Wilcox) from the Ephesian pair. No one realizes that the entire family is now roaming the streets of Ephesus. The twins are constantly mistaken for each other, confusing not only themselves but also the residents of Ephesus...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Comedy of Errors | 4/24/1987 | See Source »

...Quoted below is a section from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which will correct the misconception of Artemis of Ephesus you printed in a caption [Dec. 13]. "The usual figure of the Ephesian Artemis, which was said in the first instance to have fallen from heaven, is in the form of a female with many breasts, the symbol of productivity or a token of her function as the all-nourishing mother." Ostrich eggs indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 20, 1963 | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

...Paul carried the Gospel across the Aegean, through Macedonia and down to Athens, where in the agora below the Acropolis he preached his most famous sermon, proclaiming "the unknown God" to whom the Athenians had erected a monument. Almost as well known is Paul's farewell to the Ephesian elders at Miletus, when they knelt weeping on the shore after he had told them, "You . . . will see my face no more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: More Than Conquerors | 4/18/1960 | See Source »

THIS SIDE IDOLATRY, A Novel Based on the Life of Dickens-C. E. Bechhofer Roberts ("Ephesian")-Bobbs Merrill ($2.50). The faults and foibles of ''the Inimitable" show him less noble, less lovable, more humanly possible. Dickens lovers will chafe, disagree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mention- Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...Henry Dickens, 79, only living son of Novelist Charles Dickens, flayed in London one Carl E. Bechofer-Roberts who had written a novel, Ephesian, defaming his father. Said he: "The book is so utterly unworthy of the slightest consideration . . . that I must decline to serve the author's purpose by adding to its publicity. ... If any one had dared to publish a book like this 58 years ago when my father died, hundreds of people would have arisen to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 24, 1928 | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

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