{"id":4663,"date":"2017-02-25T11:23:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T11:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/?p=4663"},"modified":"2017-02-25T11:23:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T11:23:34","slug":"monument-of-memmius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/cities\/ephesus\/monument-of-memmius\/","title":{"rendered":"Monument of Memmius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the <strong>northern side<\/strong> of the Square of Domitian is <strong>the Monument of C. Memmius<\/strong>.<br \/>\nThis personage, commemorated in an inscription in <strong>Latin<\/strong> and <strong>Greek<\/strong>, may presumably be identified as a nephew of <strong>Sulla<\/strong>, the son of C. Memmius, a friend of <strong>Cicero<\/strong>, to whom <strong>Lucretius\u2019s De rerum natura<\/strong> was probably dedicated, and who died at a young age in <strong>50 B.C<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The general arrangement of the above-ground part, with <strong>arches<\/strong> on the <strong>fa\u00e7ade<\/strong>, is certainly Western in taste; the sculptural decorations, in particular the reliefs adorning the attic, show traditional motifs: a <strong>toga-clad man<\/strong> (togatus), a <strong>\u201cgrieving warrior\u201d<\/strong>, the trumpet or torch carrier, and a <strong>fourth figure<\/strong> at an altar.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/2111555319_1e7458550d_b.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Photo credits by <a class=\"linkHighlight\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lyng883\/\" target=\"_new\">Lyn Gateley<\/a> under CC-BY-2.0<\/p>\n<div class=\"blog-cta\">\n<div class=\"book-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/02\/GUI-EFE-ING-6.png\" alt=\"Ephesus and Pergamon Guidebook\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Do you want to know more about the history of\u00a0<strong>Ephesus and Pergamon?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Check out our <a href=\"\/en\/guidebooks\/ephesus-and-pergamon\/\" target=\"_blank\">guidebook to Ephesus and Pergamon<\/a>, with detailed history and <strong>Past &amp; Present images of their greatest historical and archaeological sites.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"vai-alla-guida\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"\/en\/guidebooks\/ephesus-and-pergamon\/\">Check out our Guide Book to Ephesus and Pergamon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vai-alla-guida\"><\/div>\n<h2>How to get to Monument of Memmius, Ephesus<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the northern side of the Square of Domitian is the Monument of C. Memmius. This personage, commemorated in an inscription in Latin and Greek, may presumably be identified as a nephew of Sulla, the son of C. Memmius, a friend of Cicero, to whom Lucretius\u2019s De rerum natura was probably dedicated, and who died [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[183,200],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4663"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4692,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663\/revisions\/4692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}