Ephesus A Great Ancient City
Ephesus was a big and important city in ancient times, with about 200,000 people. An old writing found there called it "a most illustrious...
The Seven Churches of Asia
The Book of Revelation in the Bible is addressed to seven churches. All of these churches were located in Asia Minor, a region that...
Cultural Dynamics in the Wake of Alexander’s Empire
Alexander, Seleucus, and Antiochus I sought to establish their rule in foreign lands by bringing in a significant number of Greeks, estimated at around...
Fragmentation and the Spread of Hellenism
The battle of Ipsus, in line with the prophecy in Daniel 8, saw Greece conquering Persia only to fragment into four secondary kingdoms. Another...
Wars Among the Diadochi
Two years after Antipater’s death, chaos returned. Cassander asserted control over Macedonia and Greece, while Antigonus ousted Eumenes from the east. Antigonus then aimed...
Greek word as do-goodism
The old model was fading. In the later empire, more and more of the euergetism (one might render that Greek word as do-goodism) came...
Theoderic more enlightened
We, of course, would like to see Theoderic more enlightened still. Then by a familiar rhetorical ploy he could be the idealized barbarian with...
To all Jews who live in Genoa
Those Jews of Genoa had addressed their ruler, as they would have done a century or two earlier no less frankly, to ask for...
Grandfather`s Birthday Present part 6
Just then Henk came in. “Well, where is it?” he asked, with the self- importance of one who had thought of the idea in...
Grandfather`s Birthday Present part 5
In order that the old man should not suspect what they were doing, they walked about in their stocking feet; and in order not...
