Ephesus Ancient City 2

In 129 BC, Attalos, the king of Pergamon, inherited his kingdom to the Roman Empire to join the entire region as an Asian province, and they benefited from the conditions of this testament. Ephesus city becomes a very important trade center in Augustus period and later. Historian Aelius Aristides describes Ephesus as the most important trading center in Asia. At the same time, the second philosophy school in Aegean is the leading political and intellectual center. Efes enjoys the privileged position of the East and the West with its exceptionally good climate, and it is also important to have the Artemis cult. Artemision also had an economic role, apart from the civilian precaution. A bank has become increasingly an investment because it is the most important local landlord and multifunctional as a refuge for refugees. From the 1st century onwards, Ephesus was visited by disciple who tried to propagate the one god faith of Christianity and therefore forced to escape from the Roman persecution and seek refuge. As we have learned from the written sources, this is where Saint Paul stayed in the city for three years from 65 to 68, gave famous sermons and told his listeners to embrace one God's faith. Later in the 1st century Evangelical came to Ephesus with the legendary Virgin Mary in St. John's patronage and was finally buried in Ayasuluk Tepesi. The 2nd century AD testifies to the golden age of Ephesus. Numerous honorary monuments are given to the public and the people of Ephesus by private citizens. Ephesus gained the privilege of building two emperor shrines, one for the honor of Hadrianus, the other of Domitianus. In the 3rd century Ephesus and its surrounding country are devastated by Goths. In addition, the entire city becomes one with a severe earthquake that lived around AD 270. At that time, the destruction of the temple still practiced by the Artemis clique to the Gothic tribes, and the earthquake had serious consequences for future religious development. Although the temple continued to function until 381 and continued to be worshiped, the people of Ephesus turned to religious imaginations based on salvation. The Egyptian god Serapis and Christian Jesus Christ have grown up and become more popular alternatives to the old official cults.