Galaxy/The codex of Ephesus

Thought to have been a son of the river Cayster; with the aboriginal Coresus he founded Artemis' sanctuary, and from him the Ionian city received its name.1

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Pausanias records that the Ephesian sanctuary was not founded by Amazons — though Amazon women sacrificed there from of old — but by Coresus an aboriginal and Ephesus, whom they believe to have been a son of the river Cayster; from Ephesus the city took its name.2

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BEYOND THE POETS

How the centuries since have seen Ephesus — art, artifacts and echoes.

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