Word: ephesus
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...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...
...plot itself is pure mechanistic comedy of the most elemental kind, revolving around an almost abstract symmetry of mistaken identities. In sketch as succinctly as possible, there are two pairs of twins, each pair sharing name Antipholus of Syracuse (Harry S. Murphy) and Antipholus of Ephesus (Paul Schierhorn), and their servant Dromio of Syracuse (Thomas Derrah) and Dromio of Ephesus (Stephen Rowe). The Antipholi and Dromios were separated in s shipwreck at a very young age, and now Antipholus of Ephesus, having sought his lost lost twin for seven years, finds himself in the hostile city of Syracuse, not knowing...
...asks, "Why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?" American audiences sometimes quibble at word choices (felloe, stook, distrain) and find the Englishness of the text disconcerting. For example, St. Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 16: 8, "I shall remain at Ephesus until Whitsuntide...
...ENTERING EPHESUS, by Daphne Athas. Genteel poverty in the South, growing pains, jinks (both high and low) for three teen-age sisters and their slightly ante-bellum family-circa...
...Ephesus is over 400 pages long and contains no fewer than 55 chapters full of encounters, imbroglios, plots. Not all of them work, and occasionally the pace slackens. The author is vulnerable to charges of excess and lack of critical judgment. One may as well try to defend reality. The only rejoinder is how vivid and how much like life the book is. The late Randall Jarrell once defined the novel as "a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it." This is a novel. · Martha Duffy