On the one hand, we have to see the world in terms of the choices made by these local communities; on the other, we have to remember that Rome was not the only imperialist power [in the East], and that Roman control was fluctuating and incomplete throughout most of the century".2 In Mithridates VI Eupator instigated a great number of Greek poleis.With Ephesus at its head, they systematically murdered, on the same day, all the romaioi who for decades had controlled their ports and were in charge of collecting vectigalia in the name of Rome. 3 All of this took place a few months after Mithridates' spring intervention in the province of Asia, when the Pontic kingdom took advantage of the Republic's 1 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and ICREA (T.Ñaco del Hoyo).This paper, mainly written in Oxford (Wolfson College), has received support from a research grant by the H.F. Guggenheim Foundation (New York, USA), as well as the research project HAR- granted by the Spanish Ministry of Science, and SGR by the Catalonian government.We would want to
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