. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . art of hislife. The ruins of Ephesus lie two shortdays journey from Smyrna toward the south-east. A few corn-fields are scattered alongthe site of the ancient city, which is markedby some large masses of shapeless ruins andstone walls. Toward the sea extends a pes-tilential marsh—all that is left of the ancientport. Along the slope of the mountain and or could have conceived such structures. InItaly they have parallel
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . art of hislife. The ruins of Ephesus lie two shortdays journey from Smyrna toward the south-east. A few corn-fields are scattered alongthe site of the ancient city, which is markedby some large masses of shapeless ruins andstone walls. Toward the sea extends a pes-tilential marsh—all that is left of the ancientport. Along the slope of the mountain and or could have conceived such structures. InItaly they have parallels iu Adrians villa,near Tivoli, and perhaps in the pile uponthe Palatine. Many other walls remain, toshow the extent of the buildings of the city,but no inscription or ornament is to be found;for cities have beeu built out of this quarryof wrought marble. The ruins of the adjoin-ing town, which rose about four hundredyears ago, are composed entirely of materi-als from ancient Ephesus. Within these ru-ins, about a mile and a half from Ephesus,there are a few huts which still retain thename of the parent city, Asalook—a Turkishword associated with the same idea as Ephe-. Ephesus from the Theatre. over the plain are scattered fragments ofmasonry and detached ruins; but nothing-can now be fixed upon as the great templeof Diana. There are some broken columnsand capitals of the Corinthian order, of whitemarble, the ruins of a theatre, supposed tobe the one in which Paul was preachingwhen interrupted by shouts of Great is Di-ana of the Ephesians, a splendid circus orstadium nearly entire, and numerous pilesof buildings seen at Iergamus and Troy aswell as here, which some call gymnasia, oth-ers temples, and others still, with more pro-priety, palaces. They all came with the Eo-nian conquest. No one but a Roman emper- sus, meaning the city of the moon. A churchdedicated to St. John is thought to havestood near the present mosque, and underthis church was his tomb. However much the C
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