But life would be different for Aspasia. Born in Miletus, an Ionian Greek settlement on the coast of Western Turkey, she would not be bound by the same rules that restricted Athenian citizen women ...

The world city of Ephesus, home to the Temple of Artemis — one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient world — was located 50 miles north of Miletus. At precisely this moment, Heraclitus, the Ionian from ...