A priestess of Apollo by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 1888

"The state-worship in Ephesus and Miletus was considered to be already centred on the cults of Diana and Apollo respectively: the deliberations turned, therefore, on Sardis and Smyrna."

-Tacitus, Annals: Book 4.55

A priestess of Apollo by  Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 1888.

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https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Tacitus/Annals/4D*.html#55