Izmir Part 3

These are the "Latrina" or public toilets in the Skolastikia Bath. The bath was first built in the 1st century and then rebuilt in the year 400 A.D. by a woman named Skolastikia. There were many rooms. They would bathe and get massaged in the hot room and then go to the next room where it was less hot to (and I quote directly from my book on Ephesus) rest and have chat. Our tour guide told us that the room with the toilets was once filled with flowers to help with the smell and the leaves and petals could also double as toilet paper. Inventive, those Greeks.
This is one of two Agoras in Ephesus. Basically it is a large outdoor market.
This is The Great Theater. Built around 100 B.C. This is where the Apostle Paul preached to the Ephesians. The acoustics there were quite impressive. Even though it is so big, it would have been no problem to be heard from the bottom.
Meg and Doug climbed to the top. It was later used for gladiator games.

This is us with the theater in the back. It was so amazing to walk where Paul walked and experience what life might have been like so long ago.