Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutesPolycrates of Ephesus was the bishop of Ephesus in the late second century AD and one of the most important Christian leaders of Asia Minor of his day. He is remembered above all for a single bold act: when the bishop of Rome tried to force every church to celebrate Easter on a Sunday, Polycrates wrote a fearless letter defending the ancient tradition of Asia — a tradition he traced all the way back to the apostles John and Philip, who lay buried in his own region. His stand is one of the most revealing episodes in the early history of the Church.
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Surgery in Ancient Turkey
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes“Knife is good if medicine doesn’t work, fire is good if the knife doesn’t.” Roman saying Although the history of surgery is as old as […]
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The Roman province of Asia
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Roman province of Asia was an administrative province annexed in the late Roman Republic era. Ephesus, Sardis, Pergamon and Aphrodisias had been the most […]
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