Word: ephesus
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...gold and ivory. They pack the Blue Mosque and the other masterpieces of Mehmet Aga, Turkey's great 17th century architect. Bargain hunters fill the cavernous covered bazaar looking for rugs, leather goods and gold. To the south, near Izmir, tour guides jockey for position at the ruins of Ephesus, where the main attraction is the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. In Cappadocia, the eerie area in Central Anatolia where thousands of monks lived in conical towers of rock during the early Christian period, 22 tourist buses were recently parked together...
...would be tough to top the vaudeville The Comedy of Errors that opened last week at New York City's Lincoln Center after playing at Chicago's Goodman Theater in 1983 and the Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival in 1984. In this madcap vision of ancient Ephesus, everyone must learn to juggle...
Shakespeare's story of mistaken identities, chance encounters, amorous intrigue, and multiple acts of violence centers on two sets of identical twins: Antipholus of Syracuse (Nestor Davidson) and Antipholus of Ephesus (Phillip Brittan), who are both prosperous merchants, and their foster brother servants, Dromio of Syracuse (Robinson Everett) and Dromio of Ephesus (Jason Rosencranz...
...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...
...George M.A. Hanfmann, Hudson Professor of Archaeology Emeritus, led an interdisciplinary expedition to Sardis. At the time, above ground remains were spectacular at the neighboring archaeological sites of Ephesus and Bodrum in Turkey, Petra in Jordan, and Palmyra in Syria, while those at Sardis were generally deemed undistinguished...