Buiilt between 50 and 30 BCE, the Memmius Monument was dedicated to Caius Memmis, the grandson of Roman diictator Sulla. When the taxes were too high in Ephesus they were fed up with the yoke of Rome.They needed a miracle and it was Mithridates of the Pontic Empire on the Black Sea Coast.His famous motto was ‘Asia for Asiatic’. He killed 80,000 Romans with his army.Three years after his revolt, the Roman army, under the command of Sulla, conquered Mithridates and brought security 87 BCE