On his arrival at Ephesus a three months ' truce was concluded with Tissaphernes, the satrap of Lydia and Caria, but negotiations conducted during that time proved fruitless, and on its termination Agesilaus raided Phrygia, where he easily won immense booty from the satrap Pharnabazus ; Tissaphernes could offer no assistance, as he had concentrated his troops in Caria.

* Latoreia, who had a small village near Ephesus named after her.

In historical times Greek maidens of Ephesus performed an annual circular dance with weapons and shields that had been established by Hippolyta and her Amazons.

He began to preach boldly to the crowds about Jesus with accuracy and Priscilla and Aquila, who had accompanied Paul to Ephesus, and were still there, though Paul had departed, correctively instructed the eloquent and brilliant Apollos.

Apollos and Paul were both in Ephesus at the time Paul wrote the letter ( 55 AD ); 16: 12 states Apollos was unwilling to go to Corinth yet at Paul's urging, but that he would later when he had an opportunity.

We are told that Paul had left Timothy in Ephesus and Titus in Crete to oversee the local church ( and ).

He had planned to rebuild the palace of Polycrates at Samos, to finish the temple of Didymaean Apollo at Ephesus and to found a city high up in the Alps.

After the Council of Ephesus had condemned Nestorianism, there remained a conflict between Patriarchs John of Antioch and Cyril of Alexandria.

They were also hesitant to write a new creed as the Council of Ephesus had forbidden the composition or use of any new creed.

Ephesus was friendly to Cyril, Emperor Theodosius convoked Council of Ephesus ( in 431 ) before Nestorius's supporters from Antioch and Syria had arrived and thus Nestorius refused to attend when summoned.

There was an opinion in the Church that viewed that perhaps the Council understood the Church of Alexandria correctly, but wanted to curtail the existing power of the Alexandrine Hierarch, especially after the events that happened several years before at Constantinople from Pope Theophilus of Alexandria towards Patriarch John Chrysostom and the unfortunate turnouts of the Second Council of Ephesus in AD 449, where Eutichus misled Pope Dioscorus and the Council in confessing the Orthodox Faith in writing and then renouncing it after the Council, which in turn, had upset Rome, especially that the Tome which was sent was not read during the Council sessions.

The historic silting of ports along the southern coasts of Asia Minor ( e. g. Clarus, and the examples of Ephesus, Priene and Miletus, where harbors had to be abandoned because of the silt deposited by the Meander ) and in coastal Syria during the last centuries BC.

Strabo's version looks to be the most authoritative as he had access to first hand primary sources on the sanctuaries of Artemis, i. e. the priest of Artemis Artemidoros of Ephesus.

The Emperor had called for bishops to assemble in the city of Ephesus.

Paul, who is in prison ( probably in either Rome or Ephesus ), writes to a fellow Christian named Philemon and two of his associates: a woman named Apphia, sometimes assumed to be his wife, and a fellow worker named Archippus, who is assumed by some to have been Philemon's son and who also appears to have had special standing in the small church that met in Philemon's house ( see Colossians 4: 17 ).

The New Testament records that St. Paul had called for the burning of magic and pagan books in the city of Ephesus ; this advice was adopted on a large scale after the Christian ascent to power.

The Church of the East declared independence from the churches of the Roman Empire at its general council in 424, which was before the Council of Ephesus in 431, and so had nothing to do with the theology declared at that Council.

Two oratories in the baptistery of the Lateran, one in honour of St. John the Baptist, the other of St. John the Apostle, to whom he attributed his safe escape from the Council of Ephesus, are due to him, thus satisfying the question as to which Saints John the Lateran had been dedicated.

When John of Antioch and his Syrian bishops finally reached Ephesus five days after the council, they met with Candidian who informed them that Cyril had begun a council without them and had ratified Celestine's conviction of Nestorius as a heretic.

The council sent a letter to Theodosius indicating that the condemnation of Nestorius had been agreed upon not only by the bishops of the East meeting in Ephesus but also of the bishops of the West who had convened at a synod in Rome convened by Celestine.

* Ephesos, a Lydian Amazon, after whom the city of Ephesus was thought to have been named ; she was also said to have been the first to honor Artemis and to have surnamed the goddess Ephesia.

Some Protestants feel that such claims of apostolic succession are proven false by the differences in traditions and doctrines between these churches: Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox consider both the Church of the East and the Oriental Orthodox churches to be heretical, having been anathematized in the early ecumenical councils of Ephesus ( 431 ) and Chalcedon ( 451 ) respectively.

Paul writes from Ephesus that " Christ our Pascha has been sacrificed for us ," although the Ephesian Christians were not the first to hear that Exodus 12 spoke about the death of Jesus.

In the latter case, the possible location of the authorship could have been within the church of Ephesus itself.

The Epistle is traditionally held to have been composed by John the Evangelist, at Ephesus, when the writer was in advanced age.

John the Evangelist is associated with Ephesus, where he is said to have lived and been buried.

The third Ecumenical Council ( Council of Ephesus of 431 ) reaffirmed the original 325 version of the Nicene Creed and declared that " it is unlawful for any man to bring forward, or to write, or to compose a different ( – more accurately translated as used by the Council to mean “ different ,” “ contradictory ,” and not “ another ”) Faith as a rival to that established by the holy Fathers assembled with the Holy Ghost in Nicæa " ( i. e. the 325 creed ) This statement has been interpreted as a prohibition against changing this creed or composing others, but not all accept this interpretation.

The district comprised three extremely fertile valleys formed by the outflow of three rivers, among the most considerable in Asia Minor: the Hermus in the north, flowing into the Gulf of Smyrna, though at some distance from the city of that name ; the Caster, which flowed under the walls of Ephesus ; and the Maeander, which in ancient times discharged its waters into the deep gulf that once bathed the walls of Miletus, but which has been gradually filled up by this river's deposits.

When emperor Domitian was murdered on September 18, 96 AD, Apollonius was said to have witnessed the event in Ephesus " about midday " on the day it happened in Rome, and told those present " Take heart, gentlemen, for the tyrant has been slain this day ...".

He refers to the First Council of Ephesus, held in the summer and early autumn of 431, as having been held some three years previously to the time at which he was writing " ante triennium ferme.

There was a great expansion of the cult of Mary after the Council of Ephesus in 431, when her status as Theotokos (" God-bearer ") was confirmed ; this had been a subject of some controversy until then, though mainly for reasons to do with arguments over the nature of Christ.

He may not even have been crowned in Armenia ; the ceremony may have taken place in Antioch, or even Ephesus.

The ' seal ' has been theorized to be the name of Theognis or of Cyrnus or, more generally, the distinct poetic style or else the political or ethical content of the ' poems ', or even a literal seal on a copy entrusted to some temple, just as Heraclitus of Ephesus was said once to have sealed and stored a copy of his work at the Artemisium.

There the synod of Ephesus was declared to have been a " robber synod ," its proceedings were annulled, and, in accordance with the more dyophysite ( two-nature ) strand in the teaching of Cyril of Alexandria, it was declared that the two natures are united in Christ ( without any alteration, absorption or confusion ) and ' come together to form one person and one hypostasis '.

He became Patriarch through the influence of Pope Dioscorus I of Alexandria with Emperor Theodosius II, after the deposition of Flavian by the Second Council of Ephesus, having previously been the apocrisiarius or representative of Dioscorus with the emperor at Constantinople.

Before his exile to Patmos, John had been bishop of Ephesus for many years ; as the last surviving Apostle, he had pastoral authority over the other six churches as well, all of which were located along a major roadway leading from Ephesus.

The patriarch John, having meanwhile gained time for thought and consultation, came out and mounted the pulpit, saying, " There is no need of disturbance or tumult ; nothing has been done against the faith ; we recognize for orthodox all the councils which have confirmed the decrees of Nicaea, and principally these three-Constantinople, Ephesus, and the great council of Chalcedon ".

Neither Brentano nor Emmerich had ever been to Ephesus, and indeed the city had not yet been excavated ; but visions contained in The Life of The Blessed Virgin Mary were used during the discovery of the House of the Virgin Mary, the Blessed Virgin's supposed home before her Assumption, located on a hill near Ephesus, as described in the book Mary's House.

* Sisyrbe, after whom a part of Ephesus was called Sisyrba, and its inhabitants the Sisyrbitae.

The Library of Celsus in Ephesus, Anatolia, now part of Selçuk, Turkey was built in honor of the Roman Senator Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus ( completed in 135 AD ) by Celsus ’ son, Gaius Julius Aquila ( consul, 110 AD ).

The first event in the history of Ionia for which there is a trustworthy account is the inroad of the Cimmerii, who ravaged a great part of Asia Minor, including Lydia, and sacked Magnesia on the Maeander, but were foiled in their attack upon Ephesus.

Materials for his life are furnished by two Syriac biographies by his contemporary, John of Ephesus, whom Jacobus ordained bishop of Ephesus, printed by Land, and by the third part of the Ecclesiastical History of the same author.

One of his last acts was the unsuccessful revival of the claim of the see of Antioch to the obedience of Cyprus as part of the patriarchate, which the First Council of Ephesus had removed from Antioch's supervision in 431.

The work owes its preservation to having been incorporated in the third part of the Chronicle of Zuqnin, and may probably have had a place in the second part of the Ecclesiastical History of John of Ephesus, from whom ( as François Nau has shown ) Pseudo-Dionysius copied all or most of the matter contained in his third part.

Then the couple started out to accompany Paul when he proceeded to Syria, but stopped at Ephesus in the Roman province of Asia, now part of modern Turkey.

As one scholar puts it, “ This is well demonstrated by the decoration of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome ,... where the iconographic depiction of the Virgin Mary was chosen at least in part to celebrate the affirmation of Mary as Theotokos ( bearer of God ) by the third ecumenical Council of Ephesus in 431 CE .” The mosaics of the triumphal arch and the nave in Santa Maria Maggiore were the definition of impressionistic art during the time period and gave a model for the future representations of the Virgin Mary.