Ephesus - wow! This is an impressive city, built from 2000 B.C. to the Grecian period about 1000 B.C., to the Roman period about 100 B.C. to 200 A.D., and then destroyed by two massive earthquakes between 500 and 800 A.D.
It paid to be a leader back then - a "senate" of 140 men ruled a city of 350,000. The leaders lived large - probably not so bad for the stone carvers and other artisans, but brutal for the slaves and commoners.
