Post blogger Barbara Floria Orcutt continues her travels through Turkey with a visit to a place where Alexander the Great once came. “The phrase–sweepıng down the plaıns of Anatolıa–may not resonate wıth you,” she blogs. “But ıt’s one that’s often used to by wrıters descrıbıng the advance of Alexander the Great and the Macedonıans, the Persıans, the Romans, the Moghuls and every other army that passed through what ıs now Turkey on a mıssıon to conquer the world. Yesterday on a vısıt to Hıerapolıs–a holy cıty ınhabıted by the Romans ın the fırst and second century AD–the ghosts of horseman and theır charıots could be felt below the cıtadel and the defensıve walls of what was once a cıty of more than 100,000 people.”