Falkener, Edward: Ephesus and the temple of Diana (London, 1862)

160 MODEBN EPHESUS.

M. Ampere1 describes it as so rugged, gloomy, and
mysterious, that he fancied St. John must have
inhabited it previous. to writing his terrible reve-
lations from the isle of Patmos. It is also reported
to have been the cave of the magician Maximus.
The early Christians made a church of it;3 and
Chandler3 supposed it to be the Church of St. John,
erected by Justinian.

The interior of the cave is excavated in the form
of tombs or sarcophagi; and according to the story
narrated to me on the spot, the Sleepers and their
dog were afterwards buried here ; but unfortunately
for the validity of the story, there are more than
eight such tombs, which is the utmost number
wo can allow, even supposing that the dog Avas
honoured with a human burial.

The concluding notices of Ephesus are collected
by Chandler.4 Towards the end of the eleventh
century, Tangripermes, a Turkish pirate, captured
the city, but was driven out again by John Ducas,
the Greek admiral.

The Mahommedans took possession of it in the
reign of the emperor Alexius ; they lost it in 120G,
but regained it in 1283.5

In 130G, it suffered from the exactions of the
grand-duke Roger.

1 J. J. Ampere, Une Course dans VAsie Mineure.

2 Spon and Wheler, pp. 327, 8. a Travels, i. 150.
4 Chandler, Travels, i. p. 145 to 100.

» T. H. Usborne, p. 309.