Friesen S.J. Twice Neokoros: Ephesus, Asia and the Cult of the Flavian Imperial Family

Brill Academic Publishers, 1993. — 257 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 116).This is a case study of the Cult of the Sebastoi that was established in the city of Ephesus by the province of Asia during the late first century CE. It served as a prototypical manifestation of socio-religious developments during the late first and early second centuries in the Eastern Mediterranean.