it has long been in ruins as. the art craft it by the sculptors of antiquity lies in fragments on the ground. we wander amidst the ruins and find them quite prodigious wrote the great french novelist was stuff flow back when he visited the orient in eight hundred fifty. prodigious indeed doffing all around them the pillows of the temple of jupiter are three times as high as those of the parthenon athens. this is the roman past in today s arab world what was then the province of asia the inscriptions cut in stone were intended to last forever.
it s the mystery of proportion that we see here we may not believe in the room and davies but the harmony the balance prompt admiration and all. and the stone masons of the province of asia who made the miracle happen did they believe in the roman gods in jupiter venus backwards. under the names of these strange gone to the local people continue to worship their own ditties not that all the gods are strange backus the god of lion originated in the orient and had reached rome via greece the roman empire builders were wonderful headed breed but they were intrigued by the cultic mysteries which best the bounds of their own pragmatic rational co. the romans were tolerant ensured enough to permit the worship of alien gods in
served as a quarry for the building of christian basilicas. you ll if the temple of back was have not escaped destruction if we were unable to piece this pillowed walk how would we ever be able to gauge its majesty. we sat on a stone in a shady courtyard for a bear wrote in his journal and thought outloud of the imperium ramana. man for two hundred fifty years a small town in the province of asia far from the great metropolis of rome was a focus of roman civilization which conquered the world and remained open to that world.