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[Sheila McGinn <smcginn AT jcu.edu>]

Rick Strelan wrote:

> The population of Ephesus in the second/third centuries CE is usually put
> at ca 200-225,000. I think it's important for students to recognise the
> difference between 'population' and 'citizens'. Of the latter, in Ephesus
> there were probably only about 40,000.

Rick, just wondering how you got to these figures.  When I was in Ephesus 
last summer,
one of the scholars with me (I think it was Peter Lampe) suggested the 
population was
250,000 based on a seating of 25,000 in the amphitheater there (a 10:1 ratio 
being
common for such buildings).  I got the impression that he was speaking of 
250,000
citizens, which would make the population of the city quite a bit larger.  I 
haven't
had the chance to check what Koester says in the new book on Ephesus.

Sheila

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Sheila E. McGinn, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Biblical Studies & Early Christianity
John Carroll University
Cleveland, Ohio 44118
smcginn AT jcu.edu
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