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• Sardis (Sart)

  Sardis, the Lydian capital at modern Sart: the gymnasium and synagogue complex, the temple of Artemis, the Bin Tepe burial mounds, and its place among the seven churches of Revelation.

• Selcuk, the Town Beside Ephesus

  Selcuk is the town next to the archaeological site of Ephesus, and the base for the Ephesus Museum, the Ayasuluk hill, the Basilica of St John and the remains of the Temple of Artemis.

• Sirince Village

  Sirince, the hill village above Selcuk: its old stone-and-timber houses, its former Greek Orthodox church, the story behind its name, and what a visit from the Ephesus area involves.

• Slavery in Ancient Ephesus

  Enslaved people were part of the economy and households of ancient Ephesus. What the Roman institution of slavery involved, how it shaped the city, and why it is not a footnote to the monuments.

• St John in Ephesus

  The traditions that connect John the Apostle with Ephesus, the basilica built over the tomb attributed to him, and a clear line between what is recorded, what is tradition and what is belief.

• St Paul in Ephesus

  What the New Testament says about Paul's years in Ephesus, the silversmiths' disturbance in the theatre, and how to tell the textual record apart from the traditions attached to the site.

• State Agora

  Read the upper square at Ephesus through its edges: council house, Prytaneion and stoa explain why archaeologists call it the State Agora.