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page 1Ancient Smyrna
Asia
Roman province

Aelius Aristides
2nd century Greek rhetorician and author

Smyrna
thumb|Smyrna among the cities of Ionia and Lydia ()
Ionian League
confederation of thirteen ancient Greek city-states in the region Ionia on the western coast of Anatolia (present-day Turkey)
Polemon of Laodicea
Greek sophist (c. 90 – 144)
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Diphilus of Sinope
thumb|Portrait of the poet Diphilus, a Roman copy from the early 1st century
Apsines
Apsines of Gadara (; fl. 3rd century AD) was a Greek rhetorician. He was a native of the Hellenised city of Gadara, whose ruins stand today at the border of Jordan with Syria and Israel. Apsines went on to study at Smyrna and taught at Athens, gaining such a reputation that he was raised to the consulship by the emperor Maximinus. He was a rival of Fronto of Emesa, and a friend of Philostratus, the author of the Lives of the Sophists, who praises his wonderful memory and accuracy.
Epistle of Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans
c. 110 A.D. epistle attributed to Ignatius of Antioch
Agora of Smyrna
Square in the classical-era city of Smyrna