Emperor Hadrian and the Greek cities : the state of play after half a century of major epigraphic discoveries (3)

From the Parthian border to the shores of the Pont-Euxin (123). Nicaea and Nicomedia, the two rival cities. Expedition to Thrace (?). Links with the sophist Polemon of Laodicea. Stay at Ephesus, capital of the province of Asia, in summer 124; letter on the Demostheneia competition at Termessos in Lycia.