Ephesos metropolis of Asia
Subtitle: an interdisciplinary approach to its archaeology, religion, and culture
By: edited by Helmut Koester.
Contributors: Koester, Helmut, 1926-; Harvard Divinity School.; Harvard University. Dept. of the Classics.; Harvard University. Dept. of Fine Arts.
Series: Harvard theological studies ;; 41; Harvard theological studies ;; no. 41.
Publisher: Trinity Press International
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Valley Forge, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology) -- Turkey -- Ephesus (Extinct city) -- Congresses.; Ephesus (Extinct city) -- Civilization -- Congresses.; Ephesus (Extinct city) -- Religion -- Congresses.; Rome -- Religion -- Congresses.
Description: This volume brings together studies of Ephesos - a major city in the Greco-Roman period and a primary center for the spread of Christianity into the Western world - by an international array of scholars from the fields of classics, fine arts, history of religion, New Testament, ancient Christianity, and archaeology.

The studies were presented at a spring 1994 Harvard Divinity School symposium on Ephesos, focusing on the results of one hundred years of archaeological work at Ephesos by members of the Austrian Archaeological Institute. The contributors to this volume discuss some of the most interesting and controversial results of recent investigations: the Processional Way of Artemis, the Hadrianic Olympieion and the Church of Mary, the so-called Temple of Domitian, and the heroa of Androklos and Arsinoe.

Since very little about the Austrian excavations at Ephesos has been published in English, this volume should prove useful in introducing the archaeology of this metropolis to a wider readership.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes most of the papers presented at a symposium organized by Harvard Divinity School and cosponsored by the Harvard Universtiy Departments of Classics and Fine Arts, March 1994.
Map on folded leaf inserted at end.