1. What was the setting in first-century Ephesus?

2. Curetes Street

3. << BCE
CE >>
The Harbors

6. The Amazon Connection

7. City founded by Amazon queen

8. What was Ephesus like and
who was Artemis of the Ephesians
in the first centuries?
http://epigraphy.packhum.org/inscriptions/main

9. Site visits: Ephesus, Rome, Pompeii, Athens, Jerusalem

11. Plutarch (A.D. 46–120)
“Alexander [the Great] was born … the same
day that the temple of Artemis at Ephesus was
burned…. Its mistress was absent, assisting at
the birth of Alexander.”

12. Strabo
“Artemis has her name from the fact that she
makes people ‘Artemeas’ meaning sound, well,
or delivered…”
LSJ lexicon: ρτεμέωἀ , to be safe, sound

13. “It is often thought that Artemis of Ephesus was a
fertility goddess. However, Oster has noted that
this view of the cult stems in large part from the
Christian polemic against Artemis…” (Trebilco, 23)

14. Reasoning:
•Breasts
•Motherhood
•Sex
•Nurturing

17. What if…
1 Timothy 2:15 But “she will be saved through childbearing”-- if they
continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.

18. Creative thesis
History: First-century
Ephesus
Gender:
Esp. social history Art: The novel

19. Setting: The Ephesian Fragments

20. Character: Dr. Malia “Mia” Mikos

21. Excerpt