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St. Paul’s Ephesus - Texts and Archaeology
Jerome Murphy-O’Connor

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Book ID: 289 Page: 62

Section: 5C

Ephesus and Pergamum (modern Bergamum) were perennial rivals in Asia, as were Nicea (modern Iznic) and Nicomedia (modern Izmit) in Bithynia. Pergamum had been the capital of the Attalid kingdom, but lost its primacy when Rome took over in 133 B.C.E. Its place was taken by Ephesus, which as time went on showed that it fully merited the title of the “chief city” of Asia.

Quote ID: 7387

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Book ID: 289 Page: 90

Section: 5C

Having lost his ships, in 189 B.C.E. Antiochus was forced into a land battle at Magnesia near Sipylus that he lost badly, though he managed to escape to Apamea (37.44). The next day the cities adjacent to the battlefield – Thyatira, Magnesia near Sipylus, Tralles, Magnesia on the Maeander, and Ephesus-sent delegates to Scipio Africanus to surrender. Thus “the cities of Asia put themselves under the protection of the consul and under the sovereignty of the Roman people” (37.45.1).

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Book ID: 289 Page: 90

Section: 5C

Having put themselves under the protection of Rome, the cities of Asia immediately sent envoys to the Senate in Rome in order to secure the best deal possible. Eumenes went in person. The Senate contented itself with establishing the broad lines of a peace settlement, and nominated ten commissioners to determine the precise details on the spot (37.55-56). From our perspective their most important decision (taken in 188 B.C.E.) was to single out Ephesus by name as restored to the Attalids of Pergamum.

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Book ID: 289 Page: 131

Section: 5C

The size of Pergamum was roughly equivalent. In the late second century C.E. Galen (5.49), a native son, estimated its population to be 40,000 male citizens, which came to a total of 120,000 when wives and slaves were included. By adding the young of both sexes up to the age of eighteen, Stephen Mitchell proposes a figure of between 180,000 and 200,000. 274

Quote ID: 7390

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