Before marble avenues lined the city, before Roman governors walked its colonnades, before the Apostle Paul preached in its theater— Ephesus belonged to a goddess. Not the slender huntress of Greek sculpture. Not merely Apollo’s twin. In Anatolia, she was something older. Something greater. Artemis of Ephesus was not the woodland virgin of Delos. She … Continue reading Artemis of Ephesus: The Goddess Who Ruled Anatolia