The Bouleuterion, where the city council of Roman imperial
Ephesos met. By the mid-second century, almost a quarter of the
councillors were, or had been, members of the association of
Kouretes, who celebrated the mysteries of Artemis in a grove
south-west of the city. From The Mysteries of Artemis of
Ephesos: Cult, polis, and change in the Graeco-Roman world by
Guy MacLean Rogers (Yale, £29.95 (£26.95);
978-0-300-17863-0). In the later cult of Mary, Theotokos, with its
legends about, and pilgrimages to, her reputed resting-place at
Ephesos, the author suggests that "the goddess of salvation had
arisen from the ashes of her home"