Traveling to ancient cities. Türkiye. Belikov I.

The book opens up the world of history, architecture and culture of ancient Greco-Roman cities located in the western part of modern Turkey. Together with the author, you will visit ancient cities that have had a strong influence on the development of European civilization, such as Miletus, Ephesus, Pergam, Sardis, Prim, Aphrodisias, etc. A bright description will allow the reader to feel himself a contemporary of historical personalities closely related to this region - feminum , Aristotle, Alexander of Macedon, Mark Anthony, Roman emperors Adrian, Trajan, Mark Aurelius, the first apostles, walk along the same streets on which they went to see the places described in the most famous ancient Greek myths and works of ancient historians and writers. You will get acquainted with the ruins of one of the ancient “Wonders of the World” - the Temple of Artemis of the Ephesus, Pergamon library, the second most important in the ancient world, the sanctuaries of oracles in Didima and Claros, who competed with the famous Delphic oracle, other outstanding monuments of ancient history and architecture. You will discover that Maly Asia, which today is most of present -day Turkey, is much superior to Greece in the number of ancient cities and competes with Italy. The pronounced specificity of the book is a large number of excursions into the history and culture of antiquity, Greece and Rome, a detailed acquaintance with architectural monuments and personalities associated with Greecerma Lesser Asia. This book will be useful to the reader on trips to Europe - when getting to know the departments of antiquity of the largest world museums.