Plenty of Nothing

Galatia

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Epicurean Stoa

This is a reconstruction of the stoa built in Oinoanda, Lycia to display the works of the Epicurean philosopher Diogenes, whose writings are not otherwise known and are now lie scattered over the town site, having been reused in later buildings and defenses that have since fallen down. The work of piecing together Diogenes' writings (and the stoa), and puts him in the same category as Philodemus, another philosopher whose work (in his case on charred scrolls) is slowly emerging in the 21st Century. Source. See also.

Ice on the Bosphorus, 1954

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La Sublime Porte

The Ottoman central government was called the Sublime Porte after this door, where the sultan's decisions were proclaimed. Source.

The Inscription of Diogenes of Oinoanda

The Epicurean philosopher Diogenes of Oinoanda had his writings published by inscribing them on a building in southwest Turkey, which these classicists are gradually reassembling.

Vintage Turkish Cigarette Packs

She Made No Reply, Up Her Mind, And a Dash for the Door

Roman mosaic from the Gazaentep Zeugma Mosaic Museum in Turkey. Zeugma.