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Tralles The City Tralles was an agricultural center built along the richest part of the Meander river. It was of only passing interest prior to the Hellenistic and Roman ages, when it finally came into its own in some fashion. It conducted most of its trade with the city of Miletus along the Meander. Tralles seems to have always been a few steps behind, as at the height of the Hellenistic period, the city obtained an art school devoted to the classical period. It officially became part of the Roman Empire in 133 BC, at which point it ducked back into relative obscurity to await the Byzantive Era. Perhaps information services were just as patchy in the 2nd Century AD, but Ignatius seems to have had little or no specific knowledge of the city of Tralles when he wrote his epistle, which is general and inspecific in the extreme. The Text |