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Ephesus

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Miniature relief of Ephesus
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“You cannot step into the same river twice,” says Heraclitus of Ephesus. The city of this dark philosopher, who taught that everything flows and nothing stays the same, became perhaps the place that proved his words most bitterly. For what drove Ephesus from its place over the centuries was neither an army nor an emperor; it was only a river…