Of the Ionian cities, Ephesus maintains friendly…

478 BCE

Of the Ionian cities, Ephesus maintains friendly relations with Persia: in 478, Xerxes, returning from his failure in Greece, honors Artemis of Ephesus, although he sacks other Ionian shrines, and leaves his children for safety in Ephesus.

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Ephesus > Ephesos Turkey View →

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Xerxes I View →

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Polytheism (“paganism”) View → Ionians View → Greece, classical View → Persian people View → Ephesus (Ionian Greek) city-state of View → Achaemenid, or First Persian, Empire View →

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Younger Subboreal Period View → Iron Age, Near and Middle East View → Iron Age Cold Epoch View → Classical antiquity View → Greco-Persian Wars, Early View →

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