Word: ephesus
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...story of Marian devotion as we might recognize it begins in A.D. 431 in the Greek city of Ephesus. As Pelikan points out, the scenes featuring Mary in the New Testament "could all be printed out on a few pages," and the early church's emphasis on her seems correspondingly small: the first recorded prayer to Mary dates only to the 3rd century. At Ephesus, however, a council of church fathers confronting the charge that Jesus was a man who attained divinity rather than having always possessed it responded by stressing Jesus' eternal godliness and pointedly awarding Mary the appellation...
...Bard's A Comedy of Errors, one set of twins serves another set of twins on the island of Ephesus. At the beginning of the play, however, the city's people do not realize that there are two identical master-servant pairs, for one long-lost pair has just arrived on the island...
...good way to do it is by destroying something that, unlike human life, is not even notionally a renewable resource. That "something" is the sense of a readily accessible past, without which there is no memory and no civilization. Herostratus, a narcissistic Greek, burned the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus because he thought it would make his name immortal. The depressing fact is that he was right. If he had not burned the temple, he would be utterly forgotten, along with 99.99% of the rest of the human population of Asia Minor in the 4th century B.C. Does the bombing...
...there the confusion is just beginning. One Antipholus brother and his servant, Dromio, end up in Ephesus. The other Antipholus and the other Dromio land in Syracuse. Neither Antipholus or Dromio knows of his brother's existence. But one day, the Syracuse set comes to Ephesus, where the Antipholus there has established himself as a prominent and respected member of the community. He lives with his faithful but buffoonish servant, the Ephesus-based Dromio, his lovely and pampered wife Adriana, his sister-in-law Luciana and a rotund, lustful kitchenmaid named Nell...
Both Antipholi are confidently played. Jim Marino as the Syracusean brother has greater stage presence and creates a more complex character than Karl Lampley. Lampley, as Antipholus of Ephesus, spends perhaps too much stage time being threatening...