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North of the great theater in Ephesus, archaeologists have found the remains of an ancient stadium. An inscription shows that it was rebuilt during...

The large theater in Ephesus still stands today, located just across the street from the commercial marketplace. It was first built during the Greek...

In the upper eastern part of Ephesus, there was a large public square called the state agora. It measured about 525 feet (160 meters)...

Pontus, Cappadocia, and Pergamun Pontus A Multilingual Region The northern coast of Asia Minor, known as Pontus, was dominated by a feudal Persian nobility. Despite its...

Unhappy Marriages and Poisoned Kings The marriage between Antiochus II and Berenice turned out to be far from happy. After a brief period, Antiochus abandoned...

During its zenith around 300 B.C., the Seleucid Kingdom, led by Seleucus Nicator, spanned approximately 1.5 million square miles. Despite being considered Alexander’s true...

By the fourth century, historians must pay much more attention to Christians of various stripes and their doings. No reader has to search very...

Augustus, princeps—those are the most solemn titles of empire. The Latin voice here belongs to the grandee in charge of draining the swamps, who...

Not, Theoderic assures the Verrucans, that they need to be so cautious “in our times”—but it’s always good to prepare for storms in times...

And when they came to their lord`s grave they took the head of Kot- suk£ no Suke, and, having washed it clean in a...