Word: ephesus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ephesus, led by Professor Keil of Vienna, diggers located what they guessed were the labyrinthine catacombs wherein the seven Christians of about 250 A. D., who were later called the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, hid from persecution, were sealed in by their pursuers and miraculously awoke 200 years later. They also found fragments of the earliest city of Ephesus (10th Century B. C.) with traces of Kybele, the locality's particular version of the divine matriarch common to many religions in the Mediterranean Basin before the spread of the sacrificial Son-of-God form of religion...
...conflict between democracy and oligarchy was being fought out more bitterly than today-this wistful tale takes place. Its hero, Alxenor, an aristocrat with democratic leanings, is driven from Poieêssa, his native Aegean isle, and follows a dubious fortune in Athens for a time, in Ephesus among the wealthy barbarians (Persians), in Sparta; and finally marches with the Ten Thousand under Cyrus into Asia, dreaming at the last the vain dream of a Hellas united at least in spirit. The reward of all his tribulations is only fairy gold, but the story of his life is a romance...
William Walcott, whose daring experiments, with color and impressionism in his pictures of ancient temples in Ephesus and Babylonia have caused a sensation in London art circles, is well known in the streets of London because of his long beard. Wherever he goes he is assailed with loud cries of "Beaver...
...University, spoke on Petronius in France at a meeting of the Classical Club last night. Beginning with the 16th century he traced his development from a time when only scholars knew of him until the time when every theatre in France had in its repertoire the "Widow of Ephesus...